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Senate Roll Call 505, 116th Congress · March 22, 2020

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage.

Question before the chamber: On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed

47 yea · 47 nayCloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected6 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 43 nay
Republican47 yea · 1 nay
Independent0 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 748 ↗

CARES Act

Policy area: Economics and Public 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(0.95): Repealing an excise tax cuts taxes.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Repealing a tax increases the federal deficit, representing fiscal expansion.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (47)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (6)

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