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Senate Roll Call 566, 106th Congress · July 14, 2000

To protect and provide resources for the Social Security System, to amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the "motherhood penalty", increase the widow's and widower's benefit and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit exemption and the qualified family-owned business interest deduction, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

42 yea · 54 nayAmendment Rejected4 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 2 nay
Republican0 yea · 52 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8 ↗

Death Tax Elimination 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(0.95): Increases unified credit tax exemptions and business deductions.

    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 (42)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (4)

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.