Senate Roll Call 491, 110th Congress · March 13, 2008

To reform the estate tax to avoid subjecting thousands of families, family businesses, and family farms and ranches to the estate tax.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

38 yea · 62 nayAmendment Rejected

Democrat34 yea · 16 nay

Republican3 yea · 45 nay

Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 70 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.

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): Reforming the estate tax to exempt families cuts taxes and lowers federal revenue.
Tagged by: keyword:estate tax
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.85): Cutting the estate tax reduces government revenue, representing expansionary fiscal policy.
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 (38)

Nay (62)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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