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Senate Roll Call 28, 110th Congress · January 25, 2007

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

42 yea · 51 nayMotion Rejected7 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 45 nay
Republican40 yea · 4 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2 ↗

Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007

Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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.

    Tagged by: keyword:tax increase,income tax,internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Labor & WagesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Repealing tax on Social Security benefits does not directly align with employer vs worker labor priorities.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (42)

Nay (51)

Not voting or present (7)

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.