Senate Roll Call 521, 109th Congress · May 25, 2006
To ensure the integrity of the Earned Income Tax Credit program by reducing the potential for fraud and to ensure that aliens who receive an adjustment of this status under this bill meet their obligation to pay back taxes without creating a burden on the American public.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006
Policy area: Immigration — 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.
- ImmigrationA yea counts toward “Restrictive”
model(0.85): Adds back-tax obligations and fraud checks on aliens seeking status adjustment.
Tagged by: policy-area:Immigration
Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive
- TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”
model(0.85): Requiring back-tax payments and reducing credit payouts raises federal revenue.
Tagged by: keyword:income tax,tax credit
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 (50)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Richard Burr
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thomas R. Carper
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- John Eric Ensign
- William H. Frist
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Tim Johnson
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Pat Roberts
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- James M. Talent
- Craig Thomas
- John Thune
- David Vitter
Nay (47)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Maria Cantwell
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Kent Conrad
- Mark Dayton
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Lindsey Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Barack Obama
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Arlen Specter
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (3)
- Michael B. EnziDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
- Ken SalazarDid not vote
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