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Senate Roll Call 423, 109th Congress · March 16, 2006

To increase funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program by $3,318,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, increasing the funds available to carry out that program to the fully authorized level of $5,100,000,000, to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

51 yea · 49 nayAmendment Agreed to
Democrat44 yea · 0 nay
Republican5 yea · 49 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 83

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2007 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2006 and 2008 through 2011.

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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): Closes corporate tax loopholes to raise revenue.

    Tagged by: keyword:corporate tax

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Increases spending for low-income home energy assistance by over $3.3 billion.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

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