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Senate Roll Call 599, 111th Congress · June 29, 2010

An act to create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make capital investments in eligible institutions in order to increase the availability of credit for small businesses, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for small business job creation, and for other purposes

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

66 yea · 33 nayMotion Agreed to
Democrat56 yea · 0 nay
Republican8 yea · 33 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5297

Small Business Jobs Act of 2010

Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector — 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): Providing tax incentives for small businesses lowers tax revenues.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Financial RegulationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Creating a small business lending fund and tax incentives does not alter financial regulations.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Finance and Financial Sector

    Axis: Regulate ← → Deregulate

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

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