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House Roll Call 926, 111th Congress · December 3, 2009

Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers, and Small Businesses Act of 2009

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

187 yea · 233 nayFailed14 not voting or present
Democrat17 yea · 233 nay
Republican170 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4154 ↗

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, to reinstitute and update the Pay-As-You-Go requirement of budget neutrality on new tax and mandatory spending legislation, enforced by the threat of annual, automatic sequestration, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Taxation — 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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Text does not specify the contents of the instructions in the motion to recommit.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (187)

Nay (233)

Not voting or present (14)

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