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| Bill # | Description | Date | Vote | Pass |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 583) | To reform the death tax by setting the exemption at $5 million per estate, indexed for inflation, and the top death tax rate at no more than 35% beginning in 2010; to avoid subjecting an estimated 119,200 families, family businesses, and family farms to the death tax each and every year; to promote continued economic growth and job creation; and to make the enhanced teacher deduction permanent. | 03/27/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 478) | To extend the 35, 33, 28, and 25 percent income tax rate structure and protect nearly 28,000,000 families and individuals, including small business owners, from having their tax rates increase to 39.6, 36, 31, or 28 percent. | 03/23/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 578) | To repeal the death tax. | 03/23/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 594) | To provide a deficit-neutral reserve fund for protecting State flexibility in Medicaid. | 03/23/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 606) | To repeal section 13203 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 by restoring the Alternative Minimum Tax rates that had been in effect prior thereto. | 03/23/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 | An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2007 and 2009 through 2012. | 03/23/07 | YEA | Yes |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 521) | To improve the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of Federal programs and reduce the Federal debt by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. | 03/23/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 510) | To provide for the consideration of an increase in the tobacco products user fee rate, but only to the extent that such rate increase does not result in an increase of more than 61 cents per pack of cigarettes, with all revenue generated by such increase dedicated to the reauthorization and expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. | 03/23/07 | YEA | Yes |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 471) | To amend the budget resolution for fiscal year 2008 in order to accommodate the full repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax preventing 23 million families and individuals from being subject to the AMT in 2007, and millions of families and individuals in subsequent years. | 03/23/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 529) | To increase funding for the COPS Program to $1.15 billion for FY 2008 to provide state and local law enforcement with critical resources necessary to prevent and respond to violent crime and acts of terrorism and is offset by an unallocated reduction to non-defense discretionary spending and/or reduction to administrative expenses. | 03/23/07 | YEA | Yes |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 536) | To provide a deficit-neutral reserve fund for the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) that eliminates enhanced Federal matching payments for coverage of nonpregnant adults and permits States to offer supplemental dental and mental health benefits for children enrolled in SCHIP. | 03/23/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 513) | To provide for true deficit reduction in appropriation bills. | 03/23/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 473) | To save families from the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) first by permitting a deduction for personal exemptions for purposes of computing the AMT. | 03/23/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 626) | To reform the estate tax to avoid subjecting thousands of families, family businesses, and family farms and ranches to the estate tax, and to promote continued economic growth and job creation. | 03/23/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 508) | To establish a reserve fund for protecting coverage choices, additional benefits, and lower cost-sharing for Medicare beneficiaries. | 03/23/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 515) | To prevent the adding of extraneous earmarks to an emergency war supplemental. | 03/23/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 489) | To establish a reserve fund for Social Security. | 03/22/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 491) | To pay down the Federal debt and eliminate government waste by reducing spending on programs rated ineffective by the Program Assessment Rating Tool. | 03/22/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 511) | To provide a deficit-neutral reserve fund for the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) that will cover kids first. | 03/22/07 | NAY | No |
| S. Con. Res. 21 (amdt. 472) | To require wealthy Medicare beneficiaries to pay a greater share of their Medicare Part D premiums. | 03/22/07 | NAY | No |