Senate Roll Call 241, 106th Congress · July 30, 1999

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make higher education more affordable by providing a full tax deduction for higher education expenses and a tax credit for student education loans.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

53 yea · 47 nayMotion Rejected

Democrat45 yea · 0 nay

Republican7 yea · 46 nay

Independent1 yea · 1 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): Providing tax deductions and tax credits lowers tax revenue.
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 (53)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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