Senate Roll Call 529, 107th Congress · June 12, 2002

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the estate tax in effect on December 31, 2009, to increase the exclusion amount to $4,000,000 in 2009, and to provide a full family-owned business interest deduction in 2003.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

44 yea · 54 nayMotion Rejected2 not voting or present

Democrat39 yea · 11 nay

Republican3 yea · 43 nay

Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8 ↗

Death Tax Elimination 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(0.90): Increasing estate tax exclusions and adding deductions lowers 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 (44)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (2)

Mike CrapoDid not vote
Jesse HelmsDid not vote

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