To fully fund the Class Size Initiative and the Individuals with Disabilities Act with mandatory funds, the amendment reduces the resolution's tax cut by one fifth, frees up $43 billion in discretionary spending within Function 500 (in 2001-2009) for other important education programs, and leaves adequate room in the revenue reconciliation instructions for targeted tax cuts that help those in need and tax breaks for communities to modernize and rebuild crumbling schools.

The measure

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): Tabling an amendment that reduces a tax cut preserves larger tax cuts.

  Tagged by: keyword:tax cut

  Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

• Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

  model(0.90): Tabling an amendment that increases mandatory spending prevents fiscal expansion.

  Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

  Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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