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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

43 yea · 55 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat40 yea · 9 nay
Republican1 yea · 46 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 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 “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.

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.