To protect family businesses and farmers without increasing our nation's debt by providing for an estate tax that sets the exemption at $5 million and the rate at 35 percent, with the benefits of the exemption recaptured for estates over $100 million, paid for by closing tax loopholes that allow offshore deferral of compensation and transactions entered into solely for the purpose of avoiding taxation.

The measure

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): Providing a $5 million estate tax exemption and lower rate provides tax cuts.

  Tagged by: keyword:estate tax

  Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

• Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

  excluded:model-unclear (0.85) The measure couples estate tax relief with tax loophole offsets to remain budget-neutral.

  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.