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Senate Roll Call 595, 109th Congress · August 3, 2006

A bill 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, to repeal the sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, and to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

56 yea · 42 nayCloture Motion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat5 yea · 38 nay
Republican51 yea · 3 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5970 ↗

Estate Tax and Extension of Tax Relief Act of 2006

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 “Cut taxes”

    model(0.90): Advancing estate tax cuts lowers tax 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 (56)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (2)

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.