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Senate Roll Call 36, 111th Congress · February 3, 2009

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the deduction for dividends received from controlled foreign corporations for an additional year, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

42 yea · 55 nayMotion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat9 yea · 47 nay
Republican32 yea · 7 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 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 for dividends lowers tax revenue.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Allowing a tax deduction is a tax policy matter, not direct spending.

    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 (42)

Nay (55)

Not voting or present (2)

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