House roll call 861 · 106th Congress · Jun 9, 2000
Death Tax Elimination Act
On Jun 9, 2000, the House voted 279–136 on “On Passage” (HR 8). Result: Passed. By party: Republicans 213–0, Democrats 65–135, Independents 1–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 65 members voted against their own party.
During the 106th Congress (1999–2000), Bill Clinton was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Result
- Passed
- Yes
- 279
- No
- 136
- Did not vote
- 25
- Date
- Jun 9, 2000
By party
- Republicans213 yes · 0 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Democrats65 yes · 135 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL voted yes
- Robert Marion Berry D-AR voted yes
- Michael Thompson D-CA voted yes
- Ellen O'Kane Tauscher D-CA voted yes
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA voted yes
- Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA voted yes
- Zoe Lofgren D-CA voted yes
- Sam Farr D-CA voted yes
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA voted yes
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA voted yes
- Lois Capps D-CA voted yes
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA voted yes
- Joe Baca D-CA voted yes
- Loretta Sanchez D-CA voted yes
- Mark Udall D-CO voted yes
- James H. Maloney D-CT voted yes
- F. Allen Boyd Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Peter R. Deutsch D-FL voted yes
- Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI voted yes
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI voted yes
- Leonard L. Boswell D-IA voted yes
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL voted yes
- Rod R. Blagojevich D-IL voted yes
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL voted yes
- David Dwain Phelps D-IL voted yes
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN voted yes
- Dennis Moore D-KS voted yes
- Ken Lucas D-KY voted yes
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA voted yes
- Christopher John D-LA voted yes
- Bill Delahunt D-MA voted yes
- Albert Russell Wynn D-MD voted yes
- James A. Barcia D-MI voted yes
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN voted yes
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted yes
- Clifford Ronald Shows D-MS voted yes
- Eva M. Clayton D-NC voted yes
- Bobby R. Etheridge D-NC voted yes
- Mike Mcintyre D-NC voted yes
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ voted yes
- William J. Pascrell Jr. D-NJ voted yes
- Rush Holt D-NJ voted yes
- Shelley Berkley D-NV voted yes
- Michael Patrick Forbes D-NY voted yes
- Carolyn Mccarthy D-NY voted yes
- Nydia M. Velázquez D-NY voted yes
- Michael Robert Mcnulty D-NY voted yes
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH voted yes
- Darlene Hooley D-OR voted yes
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN voted yes
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN voted yes
- John S. Tanner D-TN voted yes
- Harold Ford Jr. D-TN voted yes
- Max A. Sandlin D-TX voted yes
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX voted yes
- Nicholas V. Lampson D-TX voted yes
- Norman Sisisky D-VA voted yes
- James P. Moran D-VA voted yes
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA voted yes
- Jay Robert Inslee D-WA voted yes
- Brian Baird D-WA voted yes
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV voted yes
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV voted yes
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- Robert Terry Everett R-AL
- Robert Riley R-AL
- Robert Aderholt R-AL
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL
- Spencer T. Bachus III R-AL
- Robert Marion Berry D-AR
- Asa Hutchinson R-AR
- Jay W. Dickey Jr. R-AR
- Matthew James Salmon R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- John B. Shadegg R-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- John D. Hayworth Jr. R-AZ
- Michael Thompson D-CA
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
- Doug Ose R-CA
- John Taylor Doolittle R-CA
- Ellen O'Kane Tauscher D-CA
- Richard William Pombo R-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA
- Thomas J. Campbell R-CA
- Zoe Lofgren D-CA
- Sam Farr D-CA
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA
- George P. Radanovich R-CA
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Lois Capps D-CA
- Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
- Howard P. (Buck) Mckeon R-CA
- James E. Rogan R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Steven T. Kuykendall R-CA
- John Stephen (Steve) Horn R-CA
- Edward Randall Royce R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Gary G. Miller R-CA
- Joe Baca D-CA
- Ken Calvert R-CA
- Mary Bono R-CA
- Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
- Loretta Sanchez D-CA
- Charles Christopher Cox R-CA
- Brian P. Bilbray R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Mark Udall D-CO
- Scott Mcinnis R-CO
- Robert W. Schaffer R-CO
- Joel M. Hefley R-CO
- Thomas G. Tancredo R-CO
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT
- James H. Maloney D-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE
- Charles Joseph Scarborough R-FL
- F. Allen Boyd Jr. D-FL
- Tillie Kidd Fowler R-FL
- Clifford Bundy Stearns R-FL
- John L. Mica R-FL
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Charles Terrance Canady R-FL
- Daniel Miller R-FL
- Porter J. Goss R-FL
- David Joseph Weldon R-FL
- Mark A. Foley R-FL
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL
- Peter R. Deutsch D-FL
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Jack Kingston R-GA
- Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. D-GA
- Michael Allen (Mac) Collins R-GA
- Johnny Isakson R-GA
- Bob Barr R-GA
- Saxby Chambliss R-GA
- John Nathan Deal R-GA
- Charles W. Norwood Jr. R-GA
- John Elmer Linder R-GA
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- James Allen Nussle R-IA
- Leonard L. Boswell D-IA
- Greg Ganske R-IA
- Thomas Latham R-IA
- Helen P. Chenoweth-Hage R-ID
- Michael K. Simpson R-ID
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Rod R. Blagojevich D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Gerald C. (Jerry) Weller R-IL
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
- Judy Borg Biggert R-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Thomas W. Ewing R-IL
- Donald A. Manzullo R-IL
- Ray H. Lahood R-IL
- David Dwain Phelps D-IL
- John M. Shimkus R-IL
- David Martin Mcintosh R-IN
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN
- Mark Edward Souder R-IN
- Stephen Earle Buyer R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- Edward Allan Pease R-IN
- John Nathan Hostettler R-IN
- Jerry Moran R-KS
- Jim Ryun R-KS
- Dennis Moore D-KS
- Todd Tiahrt R-KS
- Ron Lewis R-KY
- Anne Meagher Northup R-KY
- Ken Lucas D-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Ernest L. Fletcher R-KY
- David Vitter R-LA
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin R-LA
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- John Cooksey R-LA
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- Christopher John D-LA
- Bill Delahunt D-MA
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD
- Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. R-MD
- Albert Russell Wynn D-MD
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-MD
- Constance A. Morella R-MD
- Peter Hoekstra R-MI
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI
- David Lee Camp R-MI
- James A. Barcia D-MI
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI
- Gilbert W. Gutknecht R-MN
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN
- James Matthes Talent R-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Roy Blunt R-MO
- Jo Ann Emerson R-MO
- Kenny Hulshof R-MO
- Roger F. Wicker R-MS
- Charles W. (Chip) Pickering Jr. R-MS
- Clifford Ronald Shows D-MS
- Rick Hill R-MT
- Eva M. Clayton D-NC
- Bobby R. Etheridge D-NC
- Walter Beaman Jones Jr. R-NC
- Richard M. Burr R-NC
- Howard Coble R-NC
- Mike Mcintyre D-NC
- Robert Cannon (Robin) Hayes R-NC
- Sue Myrick R-NC
- Cass Ballenger R-NC
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Lee Raymond Terry R-NE
- William E. Barrett R-NE
- John E. Sununu R-NH
- Charles Foster Bass R-NH
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ
- Frank A. Lobiondo R-NJ
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ
- William J. Pascrell Jr. D-NJ
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Rush Holt D-NJ
- Heather Wilson R-NM
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Shelley Berkley D-NV
- James A. Gibbons R-NV
- Michael Patrick Forbes D-NY
- Peter T. King R-NY
- Carolyn Mccarthy D-NY
- Nydia M. Velázquez D-NY
- Vito John Fossella R-NY
- Sue W. Kelly R-NY
- Michael Robert Mcnulty D-NY
- John E. Sweeney R-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- John Michael Mchugh R-NY
- James T. Walsh R-NY
- Thomas M. Reynolds R-NY
- John Francis (Jack) Quinn R-NY
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
- Steve Chabot R-OH
- Robert Jones (Rob) Portman R-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- David Lee Hobson R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Deborah D. Pryce R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Robert William Ney R-OH
- Steven C. Latourette R-OH
- Steve Largent R-OK
- Thomas Allen Coburn R-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins R-OK
- Julius Caesar Watts Jr. (J. C.) R-OK
- Frank D. Lucas R-OK
- Greg Walden R-OR
- Darlene Hooley D-OR
- John Peterson R-PA
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA
- James Charles Greenwood R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Don Sherwood R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Toomey R-PA
- Joseph R. Pitts R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Philip Sheridan English R-PA
- Mark Sanford R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Lindsey O. Graham R-SC
- James W. Demint R-SC
- John Thune R-SD
- William Lewis Jenkins R-TN
- John J. Duncan Jr. R-TN
- Zachary Paul Wamp R-TN
- Van Hilleary R-TN
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Ed Bryant R-TN
- John S. Tanner D-TN
- Harold Ford Jr. D-TN
- Max A. Sandlin D-TX
- Sam Johnson R-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- Pete Sessions R-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Kevin Patrick Brady R-TX
- Nicholas V. Lampson D-TX
- Kay Granger R-TX
- William McClellan (Mac) Thornberry R-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Lamar Seeligson Smith R-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Henry Bonilla R-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- Merrill Cook R-UT
- Christopher B. Cannon R-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Virgil H. Goode Jr. I-VA
- Robert William Goodlatte R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- James P. Moran D-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Thomas M. Davis III R-VA
- Jay Robert Inslee D-WA
- Jack Metcalf R-WA
- Brian Baird D-WA
- Richard Norman (Doc) Hastings R-WA
- George R. Nethercutt Jr. R-WA
- Jennifer Blackburn Dunn R-WA
- Paul D. Ryan R-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- Mark Green R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
- Barbara L. Cubin R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL
- Victor F. Snyder D-AR
- Ed Pastor D-AZ
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Lynn C. Woolsey D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Nancy Pelosi D-CA
- Barbara Lee D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Brad Sherman D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Xavier Becerra D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Lucille Roybal-Allard D-CA
- Grace Flores Napolitano D-CA
- Maxine Waters D-CA
- Juanita Millender-Mcdonald D-CA
- Bob Filner D-CA
- Diana Degette D-CO
- John B. Larson D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Rosa L. Delauro D-CT
- Corrine Brown D-FL
- Karen L. Thurman D-FL
- Jim Davis D-FL
- Carrie P. Meek D-FL
- Robert Wexler D-FL
- Alcee Lamar Hastings D-FL
- Cynthia Ann Mckinney D-GA
- John R. Lewis D-GA
- Bobby L. Rush D-IL
- Jesse L. Jackson Jr. D-IL
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL
- Danny K. Davis D-IL
- Janice D. Schakowsky D-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- Baron P. Hill D-IN
- Julia May Carson D-IN
- John Walter Olver D-MA
- Richard Edmund Neal D-MA
- James P. Mcgovern D-MA
- Barney Frank D-MA
- Martin Thomas Meehan D-MA
- John F. Tierney D-MA
- Michael Everett Capuano D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Elijah Eugene Cummings D-MD
- Thomas H. Allen D-ME
- John Elias Baldacci D-ME
- Bart T. Stupak D-MI
- Deborah Ann Stabenow D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- Lynn Nancy Rivers D-MI
- Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- David R. Minge D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- William Paul Luther D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Karen Mccarthy D-MO
- Bennie Thompson D-MS
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
- David Eugene Price D-NC
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy III D-ND
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
- Steven Rothman D-NJ
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
- Robert Menendez D-NJ
- Thomas (Tom) Udall D-NM
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- Gregory W. Meeks D-NY
- Joseph Crowley D-NY
- Jerrold Lewis Nadler D-NY
- Anthony D. Weiner D-NY
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY
- Carolyn Bosher Maloney D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- José E. Serrano D-NY
- Eliot Lance Engel D-NY
- Nita M. Lowey D-NY
- Maurice Dunlea Hinchey D-NY
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Ted Strickland D-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Dennis Kucinich D-OH
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones D-OH
- Sherrod Brown D-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- David Wu D-OR
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
- Robert A. Brady D-PA
- Chaka Fattah D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Thomas Timothy (Tim) Holden D-PA
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Joseph M. Hoeffel D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Michael F. Doyle D-PA
- Frank R. Mascara D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy D-RI
- Robert A. Weygand D-RI
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- James Enos Clyburn D-SC
- Jim Turner D-TX
- Lloyd Alton Doggett II D-TX
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX
- Rubén Hinojosa D-TX
- Silvestre Reyes D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX
- Charles A. Gonzalez D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Kenneth E. Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Ciro D. Rodriguez D-TX
- Raymond Eugene (Gene) Green D-TX
- Eddie Bernice Johnson D-TX
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
- Robert C. Scott D-VA
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Tammy Baldwin D-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Thomas M. Barrett D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
Did not vote
- Matthew G. Martínez R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Randall (Duke) Cunningham R-CA
- Wayne Edward (Ed) Whitfield R-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- Nick H. Smith R-MI
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner D-MO
- Melvin L. Watt D-NC
- Michael Patrick Forbes R-NY
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH
- John Andrew Boehner R-OH
- Ernest James Istook Jr. R-OK
- Earl Blumenauer D-OR
- Ronald Klink D-PA
- Virgil H. Goode Jr. D-VA
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- Adam Smith D-WA
- Ron Kind D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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