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Senate Roll Call 289, 110th Congress · August 1, 2007

To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for a 60-vote point of order against legislation that includes a Federal excise tax rate increase which disproportionately affects taxpayers with earned income of less than 200 percent of the Federal poverty level.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

32 yea · 64 nayAmendment Rejected4 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 47 nay
Republican31 yea · 15 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 976 ↗

Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization 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(0.90): Establishing a point of order against tax increases deters tax hikes and favors tax cuts.

    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 (32)

Nay (64)

Not voting or present (4)

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.