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Their Record

Senate Roll Call 27, 111th Congress · January 29, 2009

To provide an above-the-line Federal income tax deduction for health care costs of certain children in an amount comparable to the average federal share of the benefit provided to any non-citizen child for medical assistance or child health assistance.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

40 yea · 58 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat5 yea · 51 nay
Republican35 yea · 5 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2

Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009

Policy area: Health — 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.

  • Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”

    model(0.90): Providing a tax deduction for children's health costs expands health coverage support.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Health

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

    model(0.95): Creating an income tax deduction reduces revenue.

    Tagged by: keyword:income tax

    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.

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.