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Senate Roll Call 43, 111th Congress · February 4, 2009

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend for 2009 the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

39 yea · 57 nayMotion Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat3 yea · 53 nay
Republican36 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 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(0.90): Suspending a tax increase reduces tax burden.

    Tagged by: keyword:tax increase,income tax,internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.85): Suspending a tax increase reduces government revenue and expands the deficit.

    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 (39)

Nay (57)

Not voting or present (3)

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