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Senate Roll Call 457, 106th Congress · April 13, 2000

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the marriage penalty by providing that the income tax rate bracket amounts, and the amount of the standard deduction, for joint returns shall be twice the amounts applicable to unmarried individuals.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

53 yea · 45 nayCloture Motion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 43 nay
Republican51 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6 ↗

Marriage Tax Penalty Relief Act of 2000

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(0.90): Eliminating the marriage penalty cuts 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 (53)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (2)

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