S CON RES 70

Title

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.

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Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
3/14/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 85: On the Concurrent Resolution S. Con. Res. 70 as Amended; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.
3/14/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 84: On the Amendment Vitter Amdt. No. 4299; Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the need for comprehensive legislation to legalize the importation of prescription drugs from highly industrialized countries with safe pharmaceutical infrastructures.
3/14/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 83: On the Amendment Biden Amdt. No. 4245; To restore full funding for the international affairs budget, in support of the reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, nuclear nonproliferation, foreign assistance, fighting global AIDS, promoting sustainable development, and other efforts, with an offset.
3/14/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 82: On the Amendment DeMint Amdt. No. 4339; To provide for a deficit-neutral reserve fund for providing an above the line Federal income tax deduction for individuals purchasing health insurance outside the workplace.
3/14/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 81: On the Amendment Allard Amdt. No. 4233; To require that legislation to reauthorize SCHIP include provisions codifying the unborn child regulation.
3/14/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 80: On the Amendment Boxer Amdt. No. 4379; To facilitate coverage of pregnant women in SCHIP.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 78: On the Amendment Grassley Amdt. No. 4276 as Modified; To exempt from pay-as-you-go enforcement modifications to the individual alternative minimum tax (AMT) that prevent millions of additional taxpayers from having to pay the AMT.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 77: On the Amendment Kyl Amdt. No. 4372; To protect small businesses, family ranches and farms from the Death Tax by providing a $5 million exemption, a low rate for smaller estates and a maximum rate no higher than 35%.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 76: On the Amendment Landrieu Amdt. No. 4378; To protect family businesses and farmers without increasing our nation's debt by providing for an estate tax that sets the exemption at $5 million and the rate at 35 percent, with the benefits of the exemption recaptured for estates over $100 million, paid for by closing tax loopholes that allow offshore deferral of compensation and transactions entered into solely for the purpose of avoiding taxation.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 74: On the Amendment Kyl Amdt. No. 4348; To provide certainty to taxpayers by extending expiring tax provisions such as the R&D Tax Credit that helps US companies innovate, combat pay exclusion for our soldiers in the field, the education deduction to make colleges more affordable and the alternative energy incentives to make the environment cleaner through the end of 2009.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 71: On the Amendment Ensign Amdt. No. 4335; To increase funding for the Department of Justice for the vigorous enforcement of a prohibition against taking minors across State lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions consistent with the Child Custody Protection Act, which passed the Senate by a bipartisan vote of 65-34, with an offset.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 70: On the Amendment Boxer Amdt. No. 4368 as Modified; To increase funding for the Department of Justice for the vigorous enforcement of laws protecting children.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 69: On the Motion to Table Motion to Table Vitter Amdt. No. 4309; To create a reserve fund to ensure that Federal assistance does not go to sanctuary cities that ignore the immigration laws of the United States and create safe havens for illegal aliens and potential terrorists.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 68: On the Amendment Kohl Amdt. No. 4197; To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for a 3-year extension of the pilot program for national and State background checks on direct patient access employees of long-term care facilities or providers.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 67: On the Amendment Brownback Amdt. No. 4284; To provide funds for a Commission on Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 66: On the Amendment Allard Amdt. No. 4232; To pay down the Federal debt and eliminate government waste by reducing spending 5 percent on programs rated (as mandated under the Government Performance and Results Act (Public Law 103-62)) ineffective by the Office of Management and Budget Program Assessment Rating Tool.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 65: On the Amendment DeMint Amdt. No. 4328; To provide for a deficit-neutral reserve fund for Social Security reform.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 64: On the Amendment Sanders Amdt. No. 4218; To put children ahead of millionaires and billionaires by restoring the pre-2001 top income tax rate for people earning over $1 million, and use this revenue to invest in LIHEAP; IDEA; Head Start; Child Care; nutrition; school construction and deficit reduction.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 63: On the Amendment Ensign Amdt. No. 4240; To require wealthy Medicare beneficiaries to pay a greater share of their Medicare Part D premiums.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 62: On the Amendment Allard Amdt. No. 4246; To raise taxes by an unprecedented $1.4 trillion for the purpose of fully funding 111 new or expanded federal spending programs.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 60: On the Amendment Sessions Amdt. No. 4231; To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for border security, immigration enforcement, and criminal alien removal programs.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 59: On the Amendment Menendez Amdt. No. 4259; To establish a reserve fund for immigration reform and enforcement.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 58: On the Amendment Alexander Amdt. No. 4222; To take $670,000 used by the EEOC in bringing actions against employers that require their employees to speak English, and instead use the money to teach English to adults through the Department of Education's English Literacy/Civics Education State Grant program.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 57: On the Amendment Kennedy Amdt. No. 4350; To increase funding for the Department of Education's English Literacy-Civics Education State Grant program, with an offset.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 56: On the Amendment Alexander Amdt. No. 4207 as Modified; To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve energy efficiency and production.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 55: On the Amendment Bill Nelson Amdt. No. 4329; To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve energy efficiency and production.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 54: On the Amendment Dorgan Amdt. No. 4198; To increase the Indian Health Service by $1 billion in FY 2009.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 53: On the Amendment Specter Amdt. No. 4203; To increase funding for the National Institutes of Health and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 52: On the Amendment Bunning Amdt. No. 4192 as Modified; To repeal the tax increase on Social Security benefits imposed by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 51: On the Amendment Conrad Amdt. No. 4204; To add a deficit-neutral reserve fund for repealing the 1993 increase in the income tax on Social Security benefits.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 50: On the Amendment Kyl Amdt. No. 4191; To protect small businesses, family ranches and farms from the Death Tax by providing a $5 million exemption, a low rate for smaller estates and a maximum rate no higher than 35%.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 49: On the Amendment Salazar Amdt. No. 4196 as Modified; To reform the estate tax to avoid subjecting thousands of families, family businesses, and family farms and ranches to the estate tax.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 48: On the Amendment Upon Reconsideration Specter Amdt. No. 4189; 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.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 47: On the Motion to Reconsider Motion to Reconsider Amdt. No. 4189; 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.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 45: On the Amendment Specter Amdt. No. 4189; 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.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 79: On the Amendment DeMint Amdt. No. 4380; To provide for a deficit-neutral reserve fund for transferring funding for Berkeley, CA earmarks to the Marine Corps.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 44: On the Amendment Conrad Amdt. No. 4190; To add a deficit-neutral reserve fund for repealing the 1993 rate increase for the alternative minimum tax for individuals.
3/13/08	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 43: On the Amendment Graham Amdt. No. 4170 as Modified; To protect families, family farms and small businesses by extending the income tax rate structure, raising the death tax exemption to $5 million and reducing the maximum death tax rate to no more than 35%; to keep education affordable by extending the college tuition deduction; and to protect senior citizens from higher taxes on their retirement income, maintain U.S. financial market competitiveness, and promote economic growth by extending the lower tax rates on dividends and capital gains.
3/13/08	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 42: On the Amendment Baucus Amdt. No. 4160; To provide tax relief to middle-class families and small businesses, property tax relief to homeowners, relief to those whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and tax relief to America's troops and veterans.