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House Roll Call 1849, 110th Congress · September 29, 2008

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide earnings assistance and tax relief to members of the uniformed services, volunteer firefighters, and Peace Corps volunteers, and for other purposes

Question before the chamber: On Concurring in Senate Amendment With An Amendment

205 yea · 228 nayFailed1 not voting or present
Democrat140 yea · 95 nay
Republican65 yea · 133 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3997 ↗

Defenders of Freedom Tax Relief Act of 2007

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(0.95): Provides tax relief and tax cuts to military members and volunteers.

    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 (205)

Nay (228)

Not voting or present (1)

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.