Senate Roll Call 147, 111th Congress · April 2, 2009
To provide that no additional estate tax relief beyone that which is already assumed in this resolution, which protects over 99.7 percent of estates from the estate tax, shall be allowed under any deficit-neutral reserve fund unless an equal amount of aggregate tax relief is also provided to Americans earning less than $100,000 per year.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 “Raise revenue”
model(0.85): A yes vote restricts additional estate tax cuts unless matched by lower-income relief, preserving revenue.
Tagged by: keyword:estate tax
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Conditioning tax relief rules in a budget resolution does not directly dictate spending levels.
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 (56)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Mark Begich
- Michael F. Bennet
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Roland Burris
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Kay R. Hagan
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Edward E. Kaufman
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Claire McCaskill
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- Mark R. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Nay (43)
- Lamar Alexander
- John Barrasso
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Mike Johanns
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Bill Nelson
- James E. Risch
- Pat Roberts
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- Roger F. Wicker
Not voting or present (0)
None
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