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Senate Roll Call 146, 107th Congress · May 22, 2001

To amend title II of the Social Security Act to allow workers who attain age 65 after 1981 and before 1992 to choose either lump sum payments over four years totaling $5,000 or an improved benefit computation formula under a new 10-year rule governing the transition to the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

55 yea · 43 nayMotion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 2 nay
Republican6 yea · 41 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Social Security benefit rules concern federal spending, not 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 (55)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (2)

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