Senate Roll Call 74, 109th Congress · March 17, 2005

To repeal the 1993 tax increase on Social Security benefits.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

55 yea · 45 nayAmendment Agreed to

Democrat6 yea · 38 nay

Republican49 yea · 5 nay

Independent0 yea · 2 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.

TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”
model(0.95): Repealing a tax increase cuts taxes for Social Security recipients.
Tagged by: keyword:tax increase
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.70) Repealing a tax increase reduces government revenue, expanding the fiscal deficit.
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 (55)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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