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Senate Roll Call 35, 111th Congress · February 3, 2009

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction against individual income tax for interest on indebtedness and for State sales and excise taxes with respect to the purchase of certain motor vehicles.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

71 yea · 26 nayMotion Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat39 yea · 17 nay
Republican30 yea · 9 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

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): Allowing a tax deduction reduces individual tax burdens.

    Tagged by: keyword:income tax,internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.85): Creating a tax deduction reduces federal revenue and represents fiscal stimulus 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.

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