Senate Roll Call 146, 111th Congress · April 2, 2009

To create a deficit-neutral reserve fund for estate tax relief.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

51 yea · 48 nayAmendment Agreed to

Democrat11 yea · 46 nay

Republican40 yea · 0 nay

Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 13 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014.

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 “Cut taxes”
model(0.95): A yes vote supports creating a reserve fund intended to deliver estate tax relief.
Tagged by: keyword:estate tax
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Deficit-neutral reserve funds are procedural budget mechanisms designed to be fiscally 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.

Yea (51)

Nay (48)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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