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Senate Roll Call 614, 113th Congress · December 12, 2014

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that emergency services volunteers are not taken into account as employees under the shared responsibility requirements contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Refer

18 yea · 82 nayMotion to Refer Rejected
Democrat0 yea · 52 nay
Republican18 yea · 27 nay
Independent0 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3979

Carl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.

  • Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”

    model(0.80): Referring the bill delays or kills a measure that restricts ACA shared responsibility rules.

    Tagged by: keyword:affordable care act

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”

    model(0.80): Referring the bill delays or blocks a tax relief measure for emergency volunteers.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) The measure concerns tax rules for volunteers and is unrelated to defense policy.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

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

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