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Senate Roll Call 148, 107th Congress · May 22, 2001

To aid public health and improve water safety by providing tax-exempt bond authority to water systems to comply with the 10 parts per billion arsenic standard recommended by the National Academy of Sciences and adopted by the World Health Organization and European Union.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

49 yea · 50 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 2 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 (0.95) Water safety standards and bonding authority do not address health insurance coverage.

    Tagged by: keyword:public health

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

    model(0.90): Providing tax-exempt bond authority reduces federal tax revenues.

    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 (49)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (1)

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