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  • On the Motion S.Amdt. 2840: Motion To Waive McConnell Amdt. No. 2840; To prohibit future income tax hikes on upper incomes that fail to exempt small businesses that file individual income tax returns as partnerships, sole proprietors, or subchapter S corporations. Result: Rejected (51-45, 4 members...
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2797: Lautenberg Amdt. 2797; To strike the provision for raising the debt limit. Result: Rejected (42-54, 4 members not voting, 1/2 threshold) Details: [click here]
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2817: Levin Amdt. No. 2817; To lower crude oil prices resulting from the cancellation of planned future deliveries of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and using the funding made available to provide $1.7 billion in funding for homeland security grants for first...
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2741: Specter Amdt. No. 2741 as modified; Increase discretionary health funding by $2,000,000,000. Result: Agreed to (72-24, 4 members not voting, 1/2 threshold) Details: [click here]
  • On the Motion S.Amdt. 2840: Motion To Waive McConnell Amdt. No. 2840; To prohibit future income tax hikes on upper incomes that fail to exempt small businesses that file individual income tax returns as partnerships, sole proprietors, or subchapter S corporations. Result: Rejected (51-45, 4 members...
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2817: Levin Amdt. No. 2817; To lower crude oil prices resulting from the cancellation of planned future deliveries of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and using the funding made available to provide $1.7 billion in funding for homeland security grants for first...
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2762: Dodd Amdt. No. 2762; To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program by $1 billion and lower the national debt by eliminating tax loopholes. Result: Rejected (42-54, 4 members not voting, 1/2...
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2774: Daschle Amdt. No.2774; To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Indian Health Service Clinical Services by $3.44 billion and lower the national debt by eliminating abusive tax loopholes or reducing tax breaks for individuals with incomes in excess of $1...
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2725: Kennedy Amdt. No. 2725; To create a reserve fund to finance an increase in the maximum Pell Grant that keeps pace with the rate of increase in public college tuition, extend Pell Grants to 500,000 new recipients, and close certain tax loopholes. Result: Rejected...
  • S.Con.Res.98, the Adjournment resolution
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2762: Dodd Amdt. No. 2762; To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program by $1 billion and lower the national debt by eliminating tax loopholes. Result: Rejected (42-54, 4 members not voting, 1/2...
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2807: Lieberman Amdt. No. 2807; To restore cuts and increase funding for homeland security programs and reduce the debt by reducing the President's tax breaks for taxpayers with incomes in excess of $1 million a year. Result: Rejected (40-57, 3 members not voting, 1/2...
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2774: Daschle Amdt. No.2774; To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Indian Health Service Clinical Services by $3.44 billion and lower the national debt by eliminating abusive tax loopholes or reducing tax breaks for individuals with incomes in excess of $1...
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2804: Byrd Amdt. No. 2804; To provide responsible restraints on discretionary funding while providing adequate resources for education, veterans, homeland security, and other critical domestic priorities and fully offsetting the cost by closing corporate tax loopholes,...
  • On the Motion S.Amdt. 2765: Motion To Waive CBA Bingaman Amdt. No. 2765; To ensure that legislation is not enacted that increases the number of taxpayers affected by the alternative minimum tax. Result: Rejected (43-53, 4 members not voting, 3/5 threshold) Details: [click here]
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2725: Kennedy Amdt. No. 2725; To create a reserve fund to finance an increase in the maximum Pell Grant that keeps pace with the rate of increase in public college tuition, extend Pell Grants to 500,000 new recipients, and close certain tax loopholes. Result: Rejected...
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2803: Lincoln Amdt. No. 2803; To provide $60 billion over five years for greater health security for working Americans and their families through a combination of public and private efforts to expand quality, affordable health insurance coverage and cut health care costs by...
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2807: Lieberman Amdt. No. 2807; To restore cuts and increase funding for homeland security programs and reduce the debt by reducing the President's tax breaks for taxpayers with incomes in excess of $1 million a year. Result: Rejected (40-57, 3 members not voting, 1/2...
  • On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2799: Harkin Amdt. No. 2799; To provide for increased resources for medical research, disease control, wellness, tobacco cessation and preventative health efforts including substance abuse and mental health services, establishing a fund for this purpose, offset by an...
  • On the Motion S.Amdt. 2765: Motion To Waive CBA Bingaman Amdt. No. 2765; To ensure that legislation is not enacted that increases the number of taxpayers affected by the alternative minimum tax. Result: Rejected (43-53, 4 members not voting, 3/5 threshold) Details: [click here]