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Senate Roll Call 219, 114th Congress · June 24, 2015

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal law enforcement officers, firefighters, and air traffic controllers to make penalty-free withdrawals from governmental plans after age 50, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

60 yea · 38 nayMotion Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat13 yea · 30 nay
Republican47 yea · 5 nay
Independent0 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2146 ↗

Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act

Policy area: Foreign Trade and International 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(0.85): Allows penalty-free withdrawals, lowering tax penalties.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • TradeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Measure text does not address trade policy.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance

    Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade

Who voted which way

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

Yea (60)

Nay (38)

Not voting or present (2)

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