Senate Roll Call 506, 110th Congress · March 13, 2008
To put children ahead of millionaires and billionaires by restoring the pre-2001 top income tax rate for people earning over $1 million, and use this revenue to invest in LIHEAP; IDEA; Head Start; Child Care; nutrition; school construction and deficit reduction.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 “Raise revenue”
model(0.95): Restoring the top income tax rate raises tax revenue.
Tagged by: keyword:income tax
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”
model(0.95): Investing federal revenue into Head Start and school construction expands the federal role in education.
Tagged by: keyword:head start
Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Directing revenue toward federal programs expands government spending.
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 (43)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Claire McCaskill
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson
- Barack Obama
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
Nay (55)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Barrasso
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Jon Kyl
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Ben Nelson
- Pat Roberts
- Ken Salazar
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Roger F. Wicker
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (2)
- Robert C. ByrdDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
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