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Senate Roll Call 136, 107th Congress · May 22, 2001

To eliminate expenditures for tuition, fees, and room and board as qualified elementary and secondary education expenses for distributions made from education individual retirement accounts.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

41 yea · 58 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat39 yea · 11 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 “Raise revenue”

    model(0.90): Eliminating tax-qualified education expenses reduces a tax benefit, thereby raising tax revenue.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • EducationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Eliminating K-12 expenses from Coverdell IRAs is a tax modification with unclear net impact on federal education role.

    Tagged by: keyword:tuition

    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 (41)

Nay (58)

Not voting or present (1)

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