To protect families, family farms and small businesses by raising the death tax exemption to $5 million and reducing the maximum death tax rate to no more than 35%, to extend college tuition deduction, to extend the student loan interest deduction, to extend the teacher classroom deduction, to protect senior citizens from higher taxes on their retirement income, to maintain U.S. financial market competitiveness, and to promote economic growth by extending the lower tax rates on dividends and capital gains.

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(0.95): Raising exemption limits, lowering tax rates, and extending deductions reduce taxes.

  Tagged by: keyword:capital gains

  Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

• EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

  model(0.85): Extending education tax deductions and student loan relief expands the federal government's role in education.

  Tagged by: keyword:student loan,tuition

  Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

• Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

  model(0.85): Broad tax cuts and deductions reduce government revenue, 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.