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Published: December 6, 2009
Updated: 12/06/2009 01:10 am
Here's how North Carolina members of Congress were recorded on major votes last week:
HOUSE
ESTATE TAXES: Voting 225 for and 200 against, the House on Thursday passed a bill (HR 4154) to permanently extend the estate tax at a top rate of 45 percent and with provisions to limit it to individual estates above $3.5 million and joint estates above $7 million. Initially, the bill would exclude more than 99 percent of estates from taxation, including nearly all family-owned small businesses and farms. But that figure would gradually diminish because the exemption levels are not indexed for inflation. The bill's cost of nearly $237 billion over ten years would be added to the national debt.
A yes vote was to pass the bill.
Voting yes: G.K. Butterfield, D-1; Bob Etheridge, D-2; David Price, D-4; Mike McIntyre, D-7; Larry Kissell, D-8; Heath Shuler , D-11; Melvin Watt, D-12; Brad Miller, D-13
Voting no: Walter Jones, R-3; Virginia Foxx, R-5; Howard Coble, R-6; Sue Myrick, R-9; Patrick McHenry, R-10
Not voting: None
GOP ESTATE-TAX PLAN: Voting 187 for and 233 against, the House on Dec. 3 defeated a GOP motion to HR 4154 (above) that sought to eliminate the estate tax in 2010 and 2011 but allow it to return in 2012. Republicans settled for this approach after the Democrats' deficit rules blocked their bid for a permanent repeal of the estate tax.
A yes vote backed the GOP motion
Voting yes: Jones; Foxx; Coble; McIntyre; Kissell; Myrick; McHenry
Voting no: Butterfield; Etheridge; Price; Shuler; Watt; Miller
Not voting: None
SENATE
MEDICARE COST CONTROLS: Voting 42 for and 58 against, the Senate on Thursday refused to strip a pending health-care bill (HR 3590) of its nearly $500 billion slowdown in Medicare spending growth over 10 years. The proposed fiscal controls would help pay the $848 billion cost of the bill while imposing long-term structural changes and securing the Medicare trust fund.
A yes vote opposed the bill's Medicare cuts.
Voting yes: Richard Burr, R
Voting no: Kay Hagan, D
Not voting: None
MEDICARE BENEFITS: Voting 100 for and none against, the Senate on Dec. 3 stipulated that HR 3590 (above) would fully protect guaranteed Medicare benefits. The vote affirmed language already in the health-care bill.
A yes vote backed the amendment.
Voting yes: Hagan; Burr
Voting no: None
Not voting: None
WOMEN'S HEALTH SCREENING: The Senate on Thursday voted, 61 for and 39 against, to make women's medical screenings more affordable under HR 3590 (above). The amendment sought to eliminate or reduce co-payments and deductibles that the bill's "essential benefits package" sets for screenings to detect breast, cervical, colorectal and ovarian cancer; and other diseases in women.
The amendment's projected cost of $940 million over 10 years would be added to the national debt.
Voting yes: Hagan
Voting no: Burr
Not voting: None
REPUBLICAN SCREENING PLAN: Voting 41 for and 59 against, the Senate on Thursday defeated a Republican alternative to a Democratic measure (above) on insurance coverage of medical screening for women. The amendment to HR 3590 sought to weaken a federal advisory panel's influence on insurance rules for screenings, thus giving insurance firms and doctors more say in those decisions. It stopped short of eliminating or reducing co-pays and deductibles for women's preventive care.
A yes vote backed the GOP plan.
Voting yes: Burr
Voting no: Hagan
Not voting: None
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