Senate Roll Call 73, 109th Congress · March 17, 2005

To express the sense of the Senate that the tax cuts assumed in the budget resolution should include the repeal of the 1993 increase in the income tax on Social Security benefits.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

94 yea · 6 nayAmendment Agreed to

Democrat44 yea · 0 nay

Republican48 yea · 6 nay

Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 18 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2006 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2005 and 2007 through 2010.

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.

TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Non-binding sense-of-the-chamber resolutions do not direct policy changes.
Tagged by: keyword:income tax
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.30) Sense-of-the-Senate non-binding resolutions are explicitly listed as UNCLEAR.
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.

Yea (94)

Nay (6)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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