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Senate Roll Call 333, 109th Congress · November 17, 2005

To reinstate for millionaires a top individual income tax rate of 39.6 percent, the pre-May 2003 rates of tax on capital gains and dividends, and to repeal the reduction and termination of the phase out of personal exemptions and overall limitation on itemized deductions, until the Federal budget deficit is eliminated.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

40 yea · 59 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat37 yea · 6 nay
Republican1 yea · 53 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2020 ↗

Tax Relief Act of 2005

Policy area: Taxation — 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.

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”

    model(0.95): Reinstating higher top income tax rates and capital gains rates raises federal revenue.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    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 (40)

Nay (59)

Not voting or present (1)

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