Senate Roll Call 230, 106th Congress · July 29, 1999

To return to the taxpayers a portion of the budget surplus that they created with their tax payments.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

46 yea · 54 nayMotion Rejected

Democrat0 yea · 45 nay

Republican46 yea · 7 nay

Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1429 ↗

Taxpayer Refund Act of 1999

Policy area: Taxation — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”
model(0.95): Returning budget surplus funds to taxpayers directly cuts taxes.
Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (46)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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