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House Roll Call 1488, 112th Congress · August 1, 2012

To extend certain tax relief provisions enacted in 2001 and 2003, and for other purposes

Question before the chamber: On Passage

256 yea · 171 nayPassed3 not voting or present
Democrat19 yea · 170 nay
Republican236 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8 ↗

American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

Policy area: Taxation — 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): Extending tax relief provisions maintains lower tax rates, cutting tax revenue relative to baseline expiration.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    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.

Yea (256)

Nay (171)

Not voting or present (3)

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.