Senate Roll Call 527, 108th Congress · April 8, 2004
A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to temporarily replace the 30-year Treasury rate with a rate based on long-term corporate bonds for certain pension plan funding requirements and other provisions, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On the Conference Report
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Pension Funding Equity Act of 2004
Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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 (0.75) Pension contribution funding rules are regulatory pension policy rather than a direct tax measure.
Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Employer priority”
model(0.85): Replacing the Treasury rate with corporate bond rates lowers required pension contributions for employers.
Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment
Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (78)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Saxby Chambliss
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Mark Dayton
- Michael DeWine
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Michael B. Enzi
- Dianne Feinstein
- William H. Frist
- Bob Graham
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mitch McConnell
- Zell Bryan Miller
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Richard J. Santorum
- Charles E. Schumer
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- James M. Talent
- Craig Thomas
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Ron Wyden
Nay (19)
Not voting or present (3)
- Daniel K. AkakaDid not vote
- John Reid EdwardsDid not vote
- John F. KerryDid not vote
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