Order Code RL31840
Congressional Budget Resolutions:
Motions to Instruct Conferees
Updated August 14, 2007
Robert Keith
Specialist in American National Government
Government and Finance Division

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Congressional Budget Resolutions:
Motions to Instruct Conferees
Summary
Both the House and the Senate have procedures whereby the full bodies may
issue instructions to conferees on budget resolutions. Such instructions usually are
issued in the form of a motion, but in at least one instance the Senate adopted a
simple resolution containing such instructions. If a motion or resolution instructing
conferees is agreed to, however, the instructions are not binding on the conferees and
no point of order would lie against the conference report on the ground that the
instructions had been violated.
The practices of the House and Senate regarding such motions differ markedly
in key respects, including in terms of the frequency and number of motions and the
prerogative to offer such motions
First, the House resorts to such motions regularly, having considered 17 such
motions in 14 of the past 18 years (covering FY1991-FY2008). The House regularly
used such motions in earlier years as well. During this period, the Senate instructed
its conferees on only two budget resolutions, for FY2000 and FY2008. For earlier
years, the Senate precedents only cite one instance when budget resolution conferees
were instructed (for FY1979, when a simple Senate resolution was used).
Second, with a single exception, the House has considered only one motion per
budget resolution, while the Senate considered five motions each during
consideration of the FY2002 and FY2008 budget resolutions. The House considered
multiple motions in connection with the FY2005 budget resolution.
Finally, the House regards the motion to instruct conferees strictly as a
prerogative of the minority party, while the Senate does not. Seven of the 10 motions
considered in the Senate were offered by Members of the minority, but two were
offered by the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and one by another Member
of the majority.
In both chambers, the content of a motion may range from a broad statement of
policy to a position focused more narrowly on one or a few issues. The nature of
budget resolutions (i.e., largely broad statements of fiscal policy), nevertheless, tends
to focus the content of motions to instruct conferees on broader issues.
Motions to instruct conferees are amendable in each chamber. During the 18-
year period covered in this report, one motion was amended in the House (for
FY1992) and an amendment to one motion in the Senate was withdrawn (for
FY2000).
There is no clear pattern of acceptance or rejection of such motions in the House
(eight were agreed to, eight were rejected, and one was vitiated after consideration);
in the Senate, in each of the two years involved, four of the five motions were agreed
to. This report will be updated as developments warrant.

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Contents
Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
House and Senate Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Frequency of Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Number of Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Prerogative to Offer Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Other Procedural Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
List of Tables
Table 1. Motions to Instruct House Conferees on Budget Resolutions:
FY1991-FY2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Table 2. Motions to Instruct Senate Conferees on Budget Resolutions:
FY2000 and FY2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Congressional Budget Resolutions:
Motions to Instruct Conferees
Background
The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 requires the House and Senate to reach
agreement on at least one budget resolution each year.1 In most years, the House and
Senate initially pass separate versions of a budget resolution and then resolve their
differences through regular conference procedures, but sometimes the differences
have been resolved by means of the two chambers formally exchanging amendments.
When a conference procedure is used, both the House and the Senate have
procedures whereby the full bodies may issue instructions to conferees on
legislation.2 Conferees are expected generally to uphold the positions reflected in the
legislation that was passed by the chamber they represent. Motions to instruct the
conferees usually urge them to support particular positions taken by their chamber,
or urge them to oppose particular positions taken by the other chamber. It is not
uncommon, however, for instructions to urge conferees of one chamber to recede to
one or more positions of the other chamber.
If a motion (or resolution) instructing conferees is agreed to, the instructions are
not binding on the conferees and no point of order would lie against the conference
report on the ground that the instructions had been violated.3 As one scholar has
noted:
...conferees may disregard the instructions, particularly when they feel the need
for room to maneuver or compromise. The full House and Senate still have an
opportunity to accept or reject the conference committee report on the bill, and
1 For detailed information regarding the record of experience with budget resolutions, see
CRS Report RL30297, Congressional Budget Resolutions: Selected Statistics and
Information Guide, by Bill Heniff Jr. and Justin Murray. The House and Senate have
adopted at least one budget resolution every year since 1975, except in 1998 (for FY1999),
2002 (for FY2003), 2004 (for FY2005), and 2006 (for FY2007).
2 For information on these procedures generally, see CRS Report RS20209, Instructing
Senate Conferees, by Richard S. Beth; and CRS Report 98-381, Instructing House
Conferees, by Elizabeth Rybicki.
3 See House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House
(108th Cong., 1st sess.) 2003, Chapter 13, Sec. 16, p. 344; and Riddick’s Senate Procedure:
Precedents and Practices (101st Cong., 2nd sess.), S.Doc. 101-28, 1992, p. 480.

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a new conference may be requested if either house feels that its conferees have
grossly violated their instructions or authority.4
Instructions to conferees on a budget resolution usually are issued in the form
of a motion, but in at least one instance the Senate adopted a simple resolution
containing such instructions.
House and Senate Practices
The practices of the House and Senate regarding motions to instruct budget
resolution conferees differ markedly in key respects. Some of these differences are
discussed below in terms of the frequency and number of motions and the prerogative
to offer such motions. Several additional procedural issues also are discussed.
Frequency of Motions. The House resorts to such motions regularly while
the Senate seldom uses them. As Table 1 shows, the House considered 17 such
motions in 14 of the last 18 years, covering FY1991-FY2008. (The table lists
another motion, for FY2005, that a Member announced he would offer, but the
House vitiated the motion before it was considered; accordingly, it is not reflected
in the count.) The House regularly used such motions in earlier years as well.
During this period, the Senate instructed its conferees on only two budget
resolution (for FY2000 and FY2008), as discussed in more detail below. For earlier
years, the Senate precedents cite only one instance when budget resolution conferees
were instructed (for FY1979, when a simple Senate resolution was used).5
Number of Motions. The House has considered only one motion per budget
resolution, except for FY2005, when four different motions were considered. With
regard to FY2005, three of the motions were rejected and the fourth was vitiated after
consideration. (As indicated previously, one Member announced his intention to
offer a fifth motion to instruct conferees on the budget resolution, but that motion
was vitiated before it could be considered.)
On the two occasions that the Senate considered motions to instruct conferees
on a budget resolution, five such motions were considered in each instance (see
Table 2).
Prerogative to Offer Motion. The House regards the motion to instruct
conferees strictly as a prerogative of the minority party. In 12 of the 13 instances
identified in Table 1 when only one motion was considered, the motion was made
by the ranking minority member of the House Budget Committee; in the remaining
4 Oleszek, Walter J. Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process (7th ed.). CQ Press
(Washington, DC: 2007), p. 267.
5 The Senate adopted S.Res. 562 on September 14, 1978, by a vote of 63-21. The measure
instructed the Senate conferees on the second budget resolution for FY1979 to insist on the
Senate position not to add $2 billion for public works spending. See the remarks of Senator
Edmund Muskie and others in the Congressional Record of September 13 and 14, 1978, at
pages 29157-29158 and 29391-29403, respectively.

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instance, the motion was made by another member of the minority party. With
regard to the FY2005 budget resolution, all four of the motions considered were
offered by Members of the minority party, two of them serving on the House Budget
Committee. (The fifth motion, which was not considered by the House, also was
offered by a member of the minority party.) A motion to instruct conferees, however,
is subject to amendments offered by members of the majority party, as discussed
below.
Seven of the 10 motions considered in the Senate were offered by Members of
the minority, but two were offered by the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee
and one by another Member of the majority.
Other Procedural Issues. In both chambers, the content of a motion may
range from a broad statement of policy to a position focused more narrowly on one
or a few issues. The nature of budget resolutions (i.e., largely broad statements of
fiscal policy), nevertheless, tends to focus the content of motions to instruct conferees
on broader issues.
A broadly-worded motion offered by Representative John Kasich to the FY1994
budget resolution, for example, instructed the conferees, “to agree to the highest level
of deficit reduction, the lowest levels of budget outlays, and the lowest level of
revenues within the scope on the conference without resorting to higher taxes on
Social Security beneficiaries.”
A more narrowly drawn motion, offered by Representative Willis Gradison to
the FY1990 budget resolution, instructed the conferees “to agree to Senate provision
relating to the adoption of a joint resolution to amend the U.S. Constitution to require
a balanced budget.”
While motions to instruct usually are briefly stated, they may involve more
lengthy and complex instructions. A motion to instruct conferees on the FY2006
budget resolution offered in the House by Representative Stephanie Herseth, for
example, contained several components dealing with the Medicaid program. Under
the motion, the conferees were instructed:
(1) to recede to the following findings of the Senate: (A) Medicaid provides
essential health care and long-term care services to more than 50 million low-
income children, pregnant women, parents, individuals with disabilities, and
senior citizens; and (B) Medicaid is a Federal guarantee that ensures the most
vulnerable will have access to needed medical services; (2) to strike
reconciliation instructions to the Committee on Energy and Commerce and
recede to the Senate by including language declaring that a reconciliation bill
shall not be reported that achieves spending reductions that would (A) undermine
the role the Medicaid program plays as a critical component of the health care
system of the United States; (B) cap Federal Medicaid spending, or otherwise
shift Medicaid cost burdens to State or local governments and their taxpayers and
health providers; or (C) undermine the Federal guarantee of health insurance
coverage Medicaid provides, which would threaten not only the health care
safety net of the United States, but the entire health care system; (3) to recede to
the Senate on section 310 (entitled “Reserve Fund for the Bipartisan Medicaid
Commission”) of the Senate amendment; and (4) to make adjustments necessary

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to offset the cost of these instructions without resulting in any increase in the
deficit for any fiscal year covered by the resolution.6
Further, motions to instruct conferees are amendable in each chamber. During
the 18-year period covered in this report, one motion was amended in the House (for
FY1992) and an amendment to one motion in the Senate was withdrawn (for
FY2000). In the House, a motion offered by Representative Willis Gradison (the
ranking minority member of the House Budget Committee) regarding the FY1992
budget resolution was amended by a substitute offered by Representative Leon
Panetta (the chairman of the House Budget Committee). In the Senate, Senator Pete
Domenici (the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee) offered an amendment to
a motion offered by Senator Edward Kennedy, but then withdrew it.
Finally, the pattern of acceptance or rejection of such motions differs by
chamber.7 Of the 16 motions decided by a vote in the House, eight were approved
and eight were rejected. The eight motions approved were decided either by a voice
vote or a strong affirmative vote (the smallest margin of victory was 256 votes). The
eight motions that failed were decided by closer margins, averaging 14 votes (the
closest vote failed on a 209-209 tie).
In the Senate, in each of the two years involved, four of the five motions were
agreed to. In total, five of the eight motions agreed to were decided by rollcall vote,
but the margin of victory ranged from as few as seven votes to as many as 98 votes;
the other three were agreed to by voice vote. With regard to the two motions that
failed, the margins were relatively close: one was rejected by a vote of 44-51 and the
other was tabled by a vote of 54-45.
6 See the Congressional Record, daily ed., vol. 151, April 26, 2005, p. H2509.
7 For commentary on how Members sometimes perceive acceptance or rejection of a motion
to instruct conferees, see (1) Mark Wegner and Bill Ghent, “House Lawmakers Spin on
Budget Vote to Instruct Conferees,” National Journal’s CongressDaily AM, April 2, 2003;
and (2) Bud Newman and Brett Ferguson, “Budget Conference to Begin April 2 Amid
Differences on Taxes, Spending,” BNA Daily Report for Executives, April 2, 2003, page G-
7.

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Table 1. Motions to Instruct House Conferees on Budget Resolutions: FY1991-FY2008
Fiscal
Congress/
H. Con.
Sponsor of
Date of
Year
Session
Res.
Motion
Nature of Instruction
Disposition
Vote
Action
1991
101st, 2nd
310
—
[none]
—
—
—
1992
102nd, 1st 121
Gradison
a
To ensure that within the reserve
Agreed to
Voice
05-09-91
fund areas specified in the Senate
a m e n d m e n t , p a y - a s - y o u - g o
legislation will not harm working
families and Medicare beneficiaries,
and will adhere to the 1990 budget
process agr eement between
President Bush and the Congress. a
1993
102nd, 2nd
287
Gradison
To agree to Senate provision relating
Agreed to
322-66
05-06-92
to the adoption of a joint resolution
to amend the U.S. Constitution to
require a balanced budget.
1994
103rd, 1st
64
Kasich
To agree to the highest level of
Agreed to
413-0
03-25-93
deficit reduction, the lowest levels of
budget outlays, and the lowest level
of revenues within the scope on the
conference without resorting to
higher taxes on Social Security
beneficiaries.
1995
103rd, 2nd
218
Kasich
To agree to
Senate
provisions:
Rejected
202-216
04-14-94
reflecting a $26 billion five-year
deficit reduction by agreeing to
reduce the total spending levels
specified in the House-passed
resolution by specified amounts; and
providing no further cuts in defense
spending if the President’s defense
budget request is approved.

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Fiscal
Congress/
H. Con.
Sponsor of
Date of
Year
Session
Res.
Motion
Nature of Instruction
Disposition
Vote
Action
1996
104th, 1st
67
Sabo
To agree to revenue levels (within
Rejected
183-233
06-08-95
the scope of the conference) that
exclude the revenue effects of the
Contract With America Tax Relief
Act and insist on House position
regarding the Earned Income Tax
Credit.
1997
104th, 2nd
178
Sabo
To agree to Senate provisions on:
Rejected
187-205
05-30-96
levels of discretionary spending;
“balance billing” of Medicare
patients by health care providers;
federal nursing home quality
standards; and protection under the
Medicaid program against spousal
impoverishment.
1998
105th, 1st
84
Spratt
To agree to Senate provisions on
Agreed to
Voice
06-03-97
limiting 10-year net cost of tax cuts
to $250 billion and fair distribution
of tax cuts.
1999
105th, 2nd
284
—
[none]
—
—
—
2000
106th, 1st 68
Spratt
To
insist
that
tax cuts set forth in the
Agreed to
349-44
04-12-99
reconciliation directives in the
concurrent resolution be reported at
the latest possible date within the
scope of the conference and to
require that the reconciliation
legislation implementing these tax
cuts not be reported any earlier to
provide Congress with time to first
enact legislation extending the
solvency of the Social Security and
Medicare trust funds.

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Fiscal
Congress/
H. Con.
Sponsor of
Date of
Year
Session
Res.
Motion
Nature of Instruction
Disposition
Vote
Action
2001
106th, 2nd
290
Spratt
To insist that
reconciliation
Rejected
198-210
04-10-00
legislation implementing tax cuts be
reported no earlier than September
22, 2000, thereby allowing time to
enact legislation establishing a
universal prescription drug benefit,
and that the House recede to the
lower tax cuts in the Senate
amendment.
2002
107th, 1st
83
Spratt
To increase the funding
for
Rejected
200-207
04-24-01
education in the House resolution to
provide for the maximum feasible
funding, provide that the costs for
coverage of prescription drugs under
Medicare not be taken from the
surplus of the Federal Hospital
Insurance Trust Fund, increase the
funding provided for Medicare
prescription drug coverage to the
level set by the Senate amendment,
and insist that the on-budget surplus
set forth in the budget resolution for
any fiscal year not be less than the
surplus of the Federal Hospital
Insurance Trust Fund for that year.
2003
107th, 2nd
353
— b
[none] b
—
—
—
2004
108th, 1st
95
Spratt
To (1) eliminate the reconciliation
Agreed to
399-22
04-01-03
instruction to the Committees on
Agriculture, Education and the
Workforce, Energy and Commerce,
Transportation and Infrastructure,
Veterans’ Affairs, and Ways and
Means contained in section 201(b)
of the House resolution; (2) recede

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Fiscal
Congress/
H. Con.
Sponsor of
Date of
Year
Session
Res.
Motion
Nature of Instruction
Disposition
Vote
Action
to the Senate on section 319 (entitled
“Reserve Fund to Strengthen Social
Security”) of the Senate amendment;
and (3) adjust the revenue levels by
the amounts needed to offset the cost
of the instructions set forth in (1)
and (2), without resulting in any
increase in the deficit or reduction in
surplus for any fiscal year covered
by the resolution.

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Fiscal
Congress/
H. Con.
Sponsor of
Date of
Year
Session
Res.
Motion
Nature of Instruction
Disposition
Vote
Action
2005
108th, 2nd
95
Thompson
To recede to the Senate on the
Rejected
209-209
03-30-04
(S.Con.
(CA)
provisions contained in section 408
Res.)
of the Senate concurrent resolution
(relating to the pay-as-you-go point
of order made applicable to all
legislation increasing the deficit as a
result of direct spending increases or
tax cuts).
Moore
[same as above]
Rejected
208-215
05-05-04
Pomeroy
[same as above]
Rejected
207-211
05-12-04
Stenholm
To reject provisions that provide for
Considered
—
05-19-04
an increase in the statutory debt
but vitiated c
limit.
Price
[same as Thompson, Moore, and
Vitiated d
—
05-19-04
Pomeroy motions]
(not
considered)
2006
109th, 1st
95
Herseth
To (1) recede to certain findings of
Agreed to
348-72
04-26-05
the Senate with regard to the
Medicaid program; (2) strike
reconciliation instructions to the
Committee on Energy and
Commerce and recede to the Senate
by including language declaring that
a reconciliation bill shall not be
reported that achieves spending
reductions that would (A) undermine
the role the Medicaid program plays
as a critical component of the health
care system of the United States; (B)
cap Federal Medicaid spending, or
otherwise shift Medicaid cost
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Fiscal
Congress/
H. Con.
Sponsor of
Date of
Year
Session
Res.
Motion
Nature of Instruction
Disposition
Vote
Action
governments and their taxpayers and
health providers; or (C) undermine
the Federal guarantee of health
insurance coverage Medicaid
provides, which would threaten not
only the health care safety net of the
United States, but the entire health
care system; (3) recede to the Senate
on section 310 (entitled “Reserve
Fund for the Bipartisan Medicaid
Commission”) of the Senate
amendment; and (4) make
adjustments necessary to offset the
cost of these instructions without
resulting in any increase in the
deficit for any fiscal year covered by
the resolution.

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Fiscal
Congress/
H. Con.
Sponsor of
Date of
Year
Session
Res.
Motion
Nature of Instruction
Disposition
Vote
Action
2007
109th, 2nd
376
— b
[none]
b
—
—
—
2008
110th, 1st
99
Ryan
To (A) recede from the revenue
Agreed to
364-57
05-08-07
levels set forth in the House
amendment; insist on the policy
statement in section 401 of the
House amendment to support the
extension of such tax provisions as
the child tax credit, extension of
marriage penalty relief, extension of
the 10 percent individual income tax
bracket, extension of the research
and experimentation tax credit,
extension of the deduction for State
and local sales taxes; and recede to
section 210 of the Senate resolution
which prohibits consideration of an
increase in Federal income tax rates;
(B) insist on the lowest possible
levels of revenue within the scope of
the conference in fiscal years 2011
and 2012; and make any
commensurate adjustments in outlay
levels; and
(C) set forth a unified surplus of at
least $96 billion in FY2012 in
resolving the differences between
section 101(4) of the House
amendment and section 101(4) of
the Senate resolution.
Source: Prepared by the Congressional Research Service using data from the Legislative Information System.
a. The Gradison motion was amended by a Panetta substitute. The House failed, by a vote of 132-284, to move the previous question on the original
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b. The House and Senate did not reach the conference stage during consideration of the FY2003 or the FY2007 budget resolutions.
c. On May 19, 2004, the Speaker announced that the motion to instruct conferees offered by Representative Stenholm and debated by the House
the previous day was vitiated; see the Congressional Record (daily ed.), vol. 150, May 19, 2004, p. H3259.
d. On May 18, 2004, Representative Price, pursuant to House Rule XXII, Clause 7(c), announced his intention to offer a motion to instruct conferees
on the budget resolution. The next day, the Speaker announced that the motion (which the House had not considered) was vitiated; see the
Congressional Record (daily ed.), vol. 150, May 19, 2004, p. H3259.

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Table 2. Motions to Instruct Senate Conferees on Budget Resolutions: FY2000 and FY2008
Sponsor of
Date of
Motion
Nature of Instruction
Disposition
Vote
Action
FY2000 Budget Resolution (H.Con.Res. 68, 106th Cong., 1st sess.)
Lautenberg
To include in the conference report provisions that would reserve all
Agreed to
98-0
04-13-99
Social Security surpluses only for Social Security, and not for other
programs (including other retirement programs) or tax cuts.
Domenici
To include in the conference report a Roth/Breaux modified amendment
Agreed to
57-42
04-13-99
regarding Medicare reform and a section of the Senate-passed budget
resolution regarding the use of on-budget surpluses for a prescription
drug benefit.
Dodd
To include in the conference report a Dodd/Jeffords modified amendment
Agreed to
66-33
04-13-99
to provide for an increase in the mandatory spending in the Child Care
and Development Block Grant.
Dorgan
To include in the conference report provisions that would provide
Agreed to
Voice
04-13-99
additional funding for income assistance for family farmers above the
vote
level provided in the Senate-passed resolution.
Kennedy
To include in the conference report provisions that would allow targeted
Rejected
54-45
04-13-99
tax relief for low- and middle-income working families, and reserve a
(tabled)
sufficient portion of projected non-Social Security surpluses to extend
significantly the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund
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Sponsor of
Date of
Motion
Nature of Instruction
Disposition
Vote
Action
FY2008 Budget Resolution (S.Con.Res. 21, 110th Cong., 1st sess.)
Kyl
To insist that the final conference report include the Senate position to
Agreed to
54-41
05-09-07
provide for a reduction in revenues, sufficient to accommodate legislation
to provide for permanent death tax relief, with a top marginal rate of no
higher than 35%, a lower rate for smaller estates, and with a meaningful
exemption that shields smaller estates from having to file estate tax
returns, and to permanently extend other family tax relief, so that
American families, including farmers and small business owners, can
continue to enjoy higher after-tax levels of income, increasing standards
of living, and a growing economy, as contained in the recommended
levels and amounts of Title I of S.Con.Res. 21, as passed by the Senate.
Gregg
To reject the House amendment that assumes a $916 billion tax increase,
Rejected
44-51
05-09-07
the largest tax increase in U.S. history, and insist that the final conference
report include in the recommend levels and amounts in Title I of
S.Con.Res. 21, reductions in revenues commensurate with extending the
existing tax policy: $1,000 child tax credit; marriage penalty relief; 10%
income tax bracket—so those earning $15,000 or less continue to benefit
from low tax rate; lower marginal rates for American families and small
businesses (15%, 25%, 28%, 33%, and 35%); Earned Income Tax Credit
relief for military families; adoption tax credit; dependent care tax credit;
college tuition deduction; deduction for student loan interest; $2,000
Coverdell Education IRA; 15% rate on capital gains and dividends; and
death tax repeal.
Conrad
To (A) insist on the Senate amendment with regard to to relief, which
Agreed to
51-44
05-09-07
cuts taxes in the resolution by $180 billion to provide for extension of the
child tax credit, marriage penalty relief, and ten-percent bracket; reform
of the estate tax to protect small businesses and family farms; extension
of the adoption tax credit, dependent care tax credit, treatment of combat
pay for purposes of EITC; and other tax relief;
(B) insist on Section 303 of the Senate resolution that provides for
tax relief, including extensions of expiring tax relief and refundable tax
relief, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
the total of the period of fiscal years 2007-2012; and
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Sponsor of
Date of
Motion
Nature of Instruction
Disposition
Vote
Action
meet these tax policies are achieved by closing the tax gap, shutting down
abusive tax shelters, addressing offshore tax havens, and without raising
taxes.
Stabenow
To insist on including the Deficit-Neutral Reserve Fund for Energy
Agreed to
Voice
05-09-07
Legislation in Section 307 of S.Con.Res. 21, as passed by the Senate.
vote
Cornyn
To insist that the final conference report include the supermajority point
Agreed to
Voice
05-09-07
of order against consideration of any bill, resolution, amendment,
vote
amendment between Houses, motion, or conference report that includes
a Federal income tax rate increase, in order to protect the pocketbooks of
working and middle-class families, college students, seniors, farmers,
small business owners and entrepreneurs, and to promote the elimination
of government waste, fraud, and abuse to reduce the deficit and offset
new spending, as contained in section 210 of S.Con.Res. 21, as passed by
the Senate.
Source: Prepared by the Congressional Research Service using data from the Legislative Information System.
a. A Domenici amendment to this motion was withdrawn

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