To improve access to higher education for middle-income families by making resources available to expand the Hope and Lifetime Learning Scholarship Credits and for lower-income families by making resources available to increase the maximum Pell Grant to $4500 and to provide an equal amount for deficit reduction by eliminating the 10 percent dividend tax exclusion for amounts above $500 and eliminating acceleration of the 38.6 percent income tax rate education.

The measure

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 (0.85) Expands tax credits while eliminating tax cuts, moving tax policy both ways.

  Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

  Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

• EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

  model(0.90): Expanding Pell Grants and higher education tax credits increases federal role.

  Tagged by: keyword:pell grant

  Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

• Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

  model(0.85): Increasing Pell Grant funding expands federal spending outlays.

  Tagged by: keyword:deficit reduction

  Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.