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Senate Roll Call 114, 107th Congress · May 17, 2001

To increase the deduction for higher education expenses for certain taxpayers and to increase the tax credit for student loan interest.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

43 yea · 55 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 8 nay
Republican1 yea · 46 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1836 ↗

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001

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): Increasing tax deductions and credits lowers tax revenue, cutting taxes.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.90): Increasing tax deductions and credits for education expenses expands federal financial support for education.

    Tagged by: keyword:student loan

    Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

Who voted which way

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

Yea (43)

Nay (55)

Not voting or present (2)

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