Senate Roll Call 492, 110th Congress · March 13, 2008

To protect small businesses, family ranches and farms from the Death Tax by providing a $5 million exemption, a low rate for smaller estates and a maximum rate no higher than 35%.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

50 yea · 50 nayAmendment Rejected

Democrat3 yea · 47 nay

Republican47 yea · 1 nay

Independent0 yea · 2 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.

Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.85): Raising estate tax exemptions and lowering rates reduces tax revenues, representing fiscal expansion.
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 (50)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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