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House Roll Call 1087, 109th Congress · July 28, 2006

Providing for the consideration of H.R. 5970, Estate Tax and Extension of Tax Relief Act and H.R. 4, Pension Protection Act

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Resolution

217 yea · 194 nayPassed22 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 192 nay
Republican217 yea · 1 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Res. 966 ↗

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5970) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit against the estate tax to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to repeal the sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, and to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes; and consideration of the bill (H.R. 4) to provide economic security for all Americans, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Congress — 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 (1.00) Procedural vote providing for floor consideration of bills.

    Tagged by: keyword:estate tax

    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 (217)

Nay (194)

Not voting or present (22)

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