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Senate Roll Call 137, 107th Congress · May 22, 2001

To delay the effective date of the reductions in the tax rate relating to the highest rate bracket until the enactment of legislation that ensures the long-term solvency of the social security and medicare trust funds.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

45 yea · 54 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 6 nay
Republican0 yea · 47 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.

  • Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Conditioning tax cuts on Medicare trust fund solvency does not directly alter health care coverage rules.

    Tagged by: keyword:medicare

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”

    model(0.90): Delaying the effective date of tax rate cuts maintains higher tax revenue.

    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 (45)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (1)

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