Senate Roll Call 149, 108th Congress · May 15, 2003

To repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits and to offset the revenue loss.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

49 yea · 51 nayMotion Rejected

Democrat45 yea · 3 nay

Republican2 yea · 48 nay

Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1054 ↗

Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003

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): Repealing the tax increase on Social Security benefits lowers tax burdens.
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 (51)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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