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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

78 yea · 19 nayConference Report Agreed to3 not voting or present
Democrat33 yea · 12 nay
Republican43 yea · 7 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3108

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)

Nay (19)

Not voting or present (3)

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