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Senate Roll Call 261, 106th Congress · August 5, 1999

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce individual income tax rates, to provide marriage penalty relief, to reduce taxes on savings and investments, to provide estate and gift tax relief, to provide incentives for education savings and health care, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Conference Report

50 yea · 49 nayConference Report Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 45 nay
Republican49 yea · 3 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2488

Financial Freedom 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.

  • Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”

    model(0.80): Passage provides incentives for health care, expanding health care coverage.

    Tagged by: keyword:health care

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

    model(0.95): Passing tax cuts and rate reductions lowers tax revenues.

    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 (50)

Nay (49)

Not voting or present (1)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.