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House Roll Call 976, 109th Congress · June 22, 2006

Providing for the consideration of H.R. 5638, Permanent Estate Tax Relief Act

Question before the chamber: On Ordering the Previous Question

226 yea · 194 nayPassed12 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 193 nay
Republican224 yea · 0 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Res. 885 ↗

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5638) 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 and to repeal the sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, 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 (0.95) Procedural vote on ordering the previous question.

    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 (226)

Nay (194)

Not voting or present (12)

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