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Their Record

Senate Roll Call 429, 109th Congress · March 16, 2006

To provide an assured stream of funding for veteran's health care that will take into account the annual changes in the veteran's population and inflation to be paid for by restoring the pre-2001 top rate for income over $1 million, closing corporate tax loopholes and delaying tax cuts for the wealthy.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

46 yea · 54 nayAmendment Rejected
Democrat43 yea · 1 nay
Republican1 yea · 53 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.

  • Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”

    model(0.95): Provides an assured funding stream for veterans' health care programs.

    Tagged by: keyword:health care

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”

    model(0.95): Raises top income tax rate, closes corporate tax loopholes, and delays tax cuts.

    Tagged by: keyword:corporate tax

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Increases funding for veterans' health care.

    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.

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.