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Senate Roll Call 324, 114th Congress · December 3, 2015

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the special rule for seniors relating to the income level for deduction of medical care expenses, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

60 yea · 39 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat4 yea · 39 nay
Republican54 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3762

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 2002 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016.

Policy area: Health — 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(0.85): Extends tax deductions for senior medical care expenses, aiding health care access.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Health

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

    model(0.90): Extending a tax deduction for medical expenses lowers tax liability.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    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.

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.