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voted to adopt the 2002 Budget Resolution (which included tax cuts of $1.18 trillion) and opposed the majority of dems in the senate to do so.
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Bill Number: H Con Res 83
Issue: Budget, Spending and Taxes
Date: 04/06/2001
Sponsor: Resolution sponsored by Nussel, R-IA


Roll Call Number: 0086
Resolution passed
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Senator John Reid Edwards voted YES.

Vote to pass a concurrent resolution to set the framework for the fiscal 2002 federal budget. The 10-year budget plan calls for tax cuts of $1.18 trillion over the ten years and $85 billion in fiscal 2001.

H Con Res 83

Vote to pass a concurrent resolution to set the framework for the fiscal 2002 federal budget. The 10-year budget plan calls for tax cuts of $1.18 trillion over the ten years and $85 billion in fiscal 2001. The publicly held dept would be reduced by approximately $1.1 trillion and discretionary spending would be capped at $670 billion from fiscal 2002-2011. Among other provisions, the resolution would eliminate the marriage penalty tax by increasing the tax cut by $69 billion, increase funding for veterans health care by $1.7 billion by redirecting the same amount from the proposed tax cut, and provide for an increase of $967 million in fiscal 2002 for veterans discretionary spending. The Senate rejected amendments that would increase funding for environmental programs by $50 billion and set aside $50 billion for debt reduction, as well as an amendment that would provide an additional $70 billion over 10 years for tax credits to small business to purchase health insurance and make health insurance fully deductible.
(Resolution sponsored by Nussel, R-IA)
Resolution passed 65-35: R 50-0; D 15-35 on 04/06/2001.