On June 9, the House of
Representatives voted 279-136 to end the 84-year-old federal tax on estates,
also known as the "death tax." The legislation will now be considered in the Senate.
Here's how House representatives in each state
voted on The Death Tax Elimination Act (a "yea" vote indicates support for
eliminating the estate tax):
Alabama
Sonny Callahan (R -
1)
Yea
Terry Everett (R -
2)
Yea
Bob Riley (R -
3)
Yea
Robert B. Aderholt (R -
4)
Yea
Robert E. (Bud) Cramer, Jr. (D -
5)
Yea
Spencer T. Bachus III (R -
6)
Yea
Earl F. Hilliard (D -
7) Nay
Alaska
Don Young (R - At
Large)
Yea
Arizona
Matt Salmon (R -
1)
Yea
Ed Pastor (D - 2)
Nay
Bob Stump (R - 3)
Yea
John Shadegg (R - 4)
Yea
Jim Kolbe (R - 5)
Yea
J. D. Hayworth (R - 6)
Yea
Arkansas
Marion Berry (D -
1)
Yea
Vic Snyder (D - 2)
Nay
Asa Hutchinson (R -
3)
Yea
Jay Dickey (R - 4)
Yea
California
Mike Thompson (D
-
1)
Yea
Wally Herger (R -
2)
Yea
Douglas Ose (R -
3) Yea
John T. Doolittle (R -
4)
Yea
Robert T. Matsui (D - 5)
Nay
Lynn Woolsey (D -
6)
Nay
George Miller (D - 7)
Nay
Nancy Pelosi (D - 8)
Nay
Barbara Lee (D - 9)
Nay
Ellen O. Tauscher (D - 10)
Yea
Richard W. Pombo (R - 11)
Yea
Tom Lantos (D - 12)
Yea
Pete Stark (D - 13)
Nay
Anna G. Eshoo (D - 14)
Yea
Tom Campbell (R - 15)
Yea
Zoe Lofgren (D - 16)
Yea
Sam Farr (D - 17)
Yea
Gary A. Condit (D - 18)
Yea
George P. Radanovich (R - 19)
Yea
Calvin M. Dooley (D - 20)
Yea
William M. Thomas (R - 21)
Yea
Lois Capps (D -
22)
Yea
Elton Gallegly (R - 23)
Yea
Brad Sherman (D - 24)
Nay
Howard P. (Buck) McKeon (R - 25)
Yea
Howard L. Berman (D - 26)
Nay
James E. Rogan (R -
27) Yea
David Dreier (R - 28)
Yea
Henry A. Waxman (D -
29) Nay
Xavier Becerra (D - 30)
Nay
Matthew G. Martinez (D -
31)
Yea
Julian C. Dixon (D - 32)
Nay
Lucille Roybal-Allard (D -
33) Nay
Grace Napolitano (D - 34)
Nay
Maxine Waters (D -
35)
Nay
Steven Kuykendall (R -
36)
Yea
Juanita Millender-McDonald (D -
37)
Nay
Stephen Horn (R -
38)
Yea
Edward R. Royce (R - 39)
Yea
Jerry Lewis (R -
40)
Yea
Gary Miller (R -
41)
Yea
Joe Baca (D -
42)
Yea
Ken Calvert (R -
43)
Yea
Mary Bono (R -
44) Yea
Dana Rohrabacher (R -
45)
Yea
Loretta Sanchez (D -
46)
Yea
Christopher Cox (R -
47)
Yea
Ron Packard (R -
48)
No Vote
Brian P. Bilbray (R -
49)
Yea
Bob Filner (D -
50)
Nay
Randy (Duke) Cunningham (R -
51)
No Vote
Duncan Hunter (R -
52)
Yea
Colorado
Diana L. DeGette (D
- 1)
Nay
Mark Udall (D -
2)
Yea
Scott McInnis (R -
3)
Yea
Bob Schaffer (R
-
4) Yea
Joel Hefley (R -
5) Yea
Tom Tancredo (R -
6) Yea
Connecticut
John Larson (D
-
1) Nay
Sam Gejdenson (D -
2)
Nay
Rosa L. DeLauro (D -
3)
Nay
Christopher Shays (R -
4)
Yea
James H. Maloney (D -
5) Yea
Nancy L. Johnson (R -
6)
Yea
Delaware
Michael N. Castle
(R - At
Large) Yea
Florida
Joe Scarborough (R
-
1)
Yea
F. Allen Boyd, Jr. (D -
2) Yea
Corrine Brown (D -
3)
Nay
Tillie K. Fowler (R -
4)
Yea
Karen L. Thurman (D -
5)
Nay
Clifford B. Stearns (R -
6)
Yea
John L. Mica (R -
7) Yea
Bill McCollum (R -
8) Yea
Michael Bilirakis (R -
9)
Yea
C. W. Bill Young (R -
10)
Yea
James O. Davis (D -
11)
Nay
Charles T. Canady (R -
12)
Yea
Dan Miller (R -
13)
Yea
Porter J. Goss (R -
14)
Yea
Dave Weldon (R -
15)
Yea
Mark Foley (R -
16)
Yea
Carrie P. Meek (D -
17)
Nay
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R -
18)
Yea
Robert Wexler (D - 19)
Nay
Peter Deutsch (D -
20)
Yea
Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R -
21)
Yea
E. Clay Shaw (R -
22)
Yea
Alcee L. Hastings (D -
23)
Nay
Georgia
Jack Kingston (R -
1)
Yea
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D -
2)
Yea
Michael A. (Mac) Collins (R -
3)
Yea
Cynthia A. McKinney (D -
4)
Nay
John Lewis (D -
5)
Nay
Johnny Isakson (R -
6)
Yea
Bob Barr (R -
7) Yea
Saxby Chambliss (R -
8)
Yea
Nathan Deal (R -
9)
Yea
Charlie Norwood (R -
10)
Yea
John Linder (R -
11)
Yea
Hawaii
Neil Abercrombie (D
-
1)
Yea
Patsy T. Mink (D -
2)
Yea
Idaho
Helen Chenoweth-Hage
(R -
1) Yea
Mike Simpson (R -
2) Yea
Illinois
Bobby L. Rush (D -
1)
Nay
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D -
2)
Nay
William O. Lipinski (D -
3)
Yea
Luis V. Gutierrez (D -
4)
Nay
Rod R. Blagojevich (D -
5)
Yea
Henry J. Hyde (R -
6)
Yea
Danny K. Davis (D -
7)
Nay
Philip M. Crane (R -
8)
Yea
Janice Schakowsky (D -
9)
Nay
John Edward Porter (R -
10)
Yea
Gerald C. Weller (R -
11)
Yea
Jerry F. Costello (D -
12) Yea
Judy Biggert (R -
13)
Yea
J. Dennis Hastert (R -
14)
Yea
Thomas W. Ewing (R -
15)
Yea
Donald A. Manzullo (R -
16)
Yea
Lane Evans (D -
17)
Nay
Ray LaHood (R -
18)
Yea
David Phelps (D - 19)
Yea
John M. Shimkus (R -
20)
Yea
Indiana
Peter J. Visclosky
(D -
1) Nay
David M. McIntosh (R -
2)
Yea
Tim Roemer (D -
3)
Yea
Mark E. Souder (R -
4) Yea
Stephen E. Buyer (R -
5)
Yea
Dan Burton (R -
6)
Yea
Edward A. Pease (R -
7)
Yea
John N. Hostettler (R -
8)
Yea
Baron Hill (D - 9)
Nay
Julia M. Carson (D -
10)
Nay
Iowa
James A. Leach (R -
1)
Yea
Jim Nussle (R -
2)
Yea
Leonard L. Boswell (D -
3) Yea
Greg Ganske (R - 4)
Yea
Tom Latham (R -
5)
Yea
Kansas
Jerry Moran (R -
1)
Yea
Jim Ryun (R -
2)
Yea
Dennis Moore (D -
3)
Yea
Todd Tiahrt (R -
4) Yea
Kentucky
Edward Whitfield
(R -
1)
No Vote
Ron Lewis (R -
2)
Yea
Anne Meagher Northup (R -
3)
Yea
Ken Lucas (D -
4)
Yea
Harold Rogers (R -
5)
Yea
Ernie Fletcher (R -
6)
Yea
Louisiana
David Vitter (R -
1)
Yea
William J. Jefferson (D -
2)
Yea
W. J. (Billy) Tauzin (R -
3)
Yea
Jim McCrery (R -
4)
Yea
John C. Cooksey (R -
5)
Yea
Richard H. Baker (R -
6)
Yea
Christopher C. John (D -
7)
Yea
Maine
Thomas H. Allen (D -
1)
Nay
John E. Baldacci (D -
2)
Nay
Maryland
Wayne T. Gilchrest
(R -
1) Yea
Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. (R -
2)
Yea
Benjamin L. Cardin (D -
3)
Nay
Albert R. Wynn (D - 4)
Yea
Steny H. Hoyer (D -
5)
Nay
Roscoe G. Bartlett (R -
6)
Yea
Elijah E. Cummings (D -
7)
Nay
Constance A. Morella (R -
8)
Yea
Massachusetts
John W. Olver
(D -
1) Nay
Richard E. Neal (D -
2)
Nay
James P. McGovern (D -
3)
Nay
Barney Frank (D -
4)
Nay
Martin T. Meehan (D -
5)
Nay
John F. Tierney (D -
6)
Nay
Edward J. Markey (D -
7)
No Vote
Mike Capuano (D - 8)
Nay
John Joseph Moakley (D -
9)
Nay
William D. Delahunt (D -
10)
Yea
Michigan
Bart Stupak (D -
1)
Nay
Peter Hoekstra (R -
2)
Yea
Vernon J. Ehlers (R -
3)
Yea
Dave Camp (R -
4)
Yea
James A. Barcia (D -
5)
Yea
Fred Upton (R -
6)
Yea
Nick Smith (R -
7)
No Vote
Deborah Stabenow (D -
8)
Nay
Dale E. Kildee (D -
9)
Nay
David E. Bonior (D -
10)
Nay
Joe Knollenberg (R -
11)
Yea
Sander M. Levin (D -
12)
Nay
Lynn N. Rivers (D -
13)
Nay
John Conyers, Jr. (D -
14)
No Vote
Carolyn C. Kilpatrick (D -
15)
Nay
John D. Dingell (D -
16)
Nay
Minnesota
Gil Gutknecht (R
-
1)
Yea
David Minge (D -
2)
Nay
Jim Ramstad (R -
3)
Yea
Bruce F. Vento (D -
4)
No Vote
Martin Olav Sabo (D -
5)
Nay
Bill Luther (D -
6)
Nay
Collin C. Peterson (D -
7)
Yea
James L. Oberstar (D - 8)
Nay
Mississippi
Roger F. Wicker
(R -
1) Yea
Bennie G. Thompson (D -
2)
Nay
Charles W. Pickering, Jr. (R -
3)
Yea
Ronnie Shows (D -
4) Yea
Gene Taylor (D - 5)
Nay
Missouri
William L. Clay (D
-
1)
No Vote
James M. Talent (R -
2)
Yea
Richard A. Gephardt (D -
3)
Nay
Ike Skelton (D -
4)
Yea
Karen McCarthy (D -
5)
Nay
Pat Danner (D - 6)
No Vote
Roy D. Blunt (R -
7)
Yea
Jo Ann Emerson (R -
8)
Yea
Kenny Hulshof (R -
9)
Yea
Montana
Rick Hill (R - At
Large)
Yea
Nebraska
Doug Bereuter (R -
1)
Yea
Lee Terry (R -
2)
Yea
Bill Barrett (R -
3)
Yea
Nevada
Shelly Berkley (D -
1)
Yea
Jim Gibbons (R -
2)
Yea
New Hampshire
John E.
Sununu (R -
1) Yea
Charles F. Bass (R -
2) Yea
New Jersey
Robert E.
Andrews (D -
1) Yea
Frank A. LoBiondo (R -
2)
Yea
Jim Saxton (R -
3) Yea
Christopher H. Smith (R - 4)
Yea
Marge Roukema (R -
5)
Yea
Frank Pallone, Jr. (D -
6)
Nay
Bob Franks (R -
7)
Yea
William J. Pascrell, Jr. (D -
8) Yea
Steven R. Rothman (D -
9)
Nay
Donald M. Payne (D -
10)
Nay
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (R -
11)
Yea
Rush Holt (D -
12)
Yea
Robert Menendez (D - 13)
Nay
New Mexico
Heather Wilson
(R -
1)
Yea
Joe Skeen (R -
2)
Yea
Thomas Udall (D - 3)
Nay
New York
Michael P. Forbes
(D -
1) Yea
Rick A. Lazio (R -
2)
No Vote
Peter T. King (R -
3)
Yea
Carolyn McCarthy (D -
4)
Yea
Gary L. Ackerman (D -
5)
Nay
Gregory W. Meeks (D -
6)
Nay
Jospeh Crowley (D - 7)
Nay
Jerrold Nadler (D - 8)
Nay
Anthony Weiner (D -
9)
Nay
Edolphus Towns (D -
10)
Nay
Major R. Owens (D -
11)
Nay
Nydia M. Velazquez (D -
12)
Yea
Vito Fossella (R -
13)
Yea
Carolyn B. Maloney (D - 14)
Nay
Charles B. Rangel (D -
15)
Nay
Jose' E. Serrano (D -
16)
Nay
Eliot L. Engel (D -
17)
Nay
Nita M. Lowey (D -
18)
Nay
Sue W. Kelly (R -
19)
Yea
Benjamin A. Gilman (R -
20)
No Vote
Michael R. McNulty (D -
21)
Yea
John Sweeney (R -
22)
Yea
Sherwood L. Boehlert (R -
23) Yea
John M. McHugh (R -
24)
Yea
James T. Walsh (R -
25)
Yea
Maurice D. Hinchey (D -
26)
Nay
Tom Reynolds (R -
27)
Yea
Louise M. Slaughter (D -
28)
Nay
John J. LaFalce (D -
29)
Nay
Jack Quinn (R -
30)
Yea
Amo Houghton (R -
31) Yea
North Carolina
Eva M. Clayton (D -
1) Yea
Bobby R. Etheridge (D -
2)
Yea
Walter B. Jones (R -
3)
Yea
David E. Price (D -
4)
Nay
Richard M. Burr (R -
5)
Yea
Howard Coble (R -
6)
Yea
Mike McIntyre (D -
7)
Yea
Robin Hayes (R -
8) Yea
Sue Myrick (R -
9)
Yea
Cass Ballenger (R -
10)
Yea
Charles H. Taylor (R -
11)
Yea
Melvin L. Watt (D -
12)
No Vote
North Dakota
Earl Pomeroy (D
- At
Large) Nay
Ohio
Steve J. Chabot (R -
1)
Yea
Rob Portman (R -
2)
Yea
Tony P. Hall (D -
3)
Nay
Michael G. Oxley (R -
4)
Yea
Paul E. Gillmor (R - 5)
No Vote
Ted Strickland (D -
6)
Nay
David L. Hobson (R -
7)
Yea
John A. Boehner (R -
8)
No Vote
Marcy Kaptur (D -
9)
Nay
Dennis J. Kucinich (D - 10)
Nay
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D -
11)
Nay
John R. Kasich (R -
12)
Yea
Sherrod Brown (D -
13)
Nay
Thomas C. Sawyer (D -
14)
Nay
Deborah Pryce (R -
15)
Yea
Ralph Regula (R -
16)
Yea
James A. Traficant, Jr. (D -
17) Yea
Robert W. Ney (R -
18)
Yea
Steven C. LaTourette (R -
19)
Yea
Oklahoma
Steve Largent (R -
1)
Yea
Tom A. Coburn (R -
2)
Yea
Wes W. Watkins (R - 3)
Yea
J. C. Watts, Jr. (R - 4)
Yea
Ernest J. Istook, Jr. (R - 5)
No Vote
Frank D. Lucas (R - 6)
Yea
Oregon
David Wu (D -
1)
Nay
Greg Walden (R -
2)
Yea
Earl Blumenauer (D -
3)
No Vote
Peter A. DeFazio (D -
4)
Nay
Darlene Hooley (D -
5)
Yea
Pennsylvania
Robert Brady
(D -
1) Nay
Chaka Fattah (D -
2)
Nay
Robert A. Borski (D -
3)
Nay
Ron Klink (D -
4)
No Vote
John E. Peterson (R -
5)
Yea
Tim Holden (D -
6)
Nay
Curt Weldon (R -
7)
Yea
James C. Greenwood (R - 8)
Yea
Bud Shuster (R - 9)
Yea
Donald Sherwood (R - 10)
Yea
Paul E. Kanjorski (D -
11)
Nay
John P. Murtha (D -
12)
Nay
Joseph Hoeffel (D -
13)
Nay
William J. Coyne (D -
14)
Nay
Patrick Toomey (R - 15)
Yea
Joseph R. Pitts (R - 16)
Yea
George W. Gekas (R - 17)
Yea
Michael F. Doyle (D -
18)
Nay
William F. Goodling (R -
19)
Yea
Frank R. Mascara (D - 20)
Nay
Phil English (R -
21) Yea
Rhode Island
Patrick J.
Kennedy (D -
1) Nay
Robert A. Weygand (D -
2) Nay
South Carolina
Marshall
(Mark) Sanford (R -
1) Yea
Floyd D. Spence (R -
2)
Yea
Lindsey O. Graham (R - 3)
Yea
James DeMint (R - 4)
Yea
John M. Spratt, Jr. (D -
5)
Nay
James E. Clyburn (D -
6)
Nay
South Dakota
John R. Thune
(R - At
Large) Yea
Tennessee
William L.
Jenkins (R - 1)
Yea
John J. Duncan, Jr. (R - 2)
Yea
Zach Wamp (R - 3)
Yea
Van Hilleary (R -
4) Yea
Bob Clement (D - 5)
Yea
Bart Gordon (D -
6)
Yea
Ed Bryant (R -
7)
Yea
John S. Tanner (D -
8)
Yea
Harold E. Ford, Jr. (D -
9)
Yea
Texas
Max Sandlin (D -
1)
Yea
Jim
Turner (D -
2)
Nay
Sam
Johnson (R -
3)
Yea
Ralph M. Hall (D -
4)
Yea
Pete Sessions (R - 5)
Yea
Joe Barton (R - 6)
Yea
Bill Archer (R - 7)
Yea
Kevin Brady (R -
8) Yea
Nick Lampson (D -
9)
Yea
Lloyd Doggett (D - 10)
Nay
Chet Edwards (D -
11)
Nay
Kay Granger (R -
12)
Yea
William M. (Mac) Thornberry (R - 13)
Yea
Ron Paul (R - 14)
Yea
Ruben E. Hinojosa (D -
15)
Nay
Silvestre Reyes (D -
16)
Nay
Charles W. Stenholm (D -
17)
Nay
Sheila Jackson Lee (D -
18)
Nay
Larry Combest (R -
19)
Yea
Charlie Gonzalez (D -
20)
Nay
Lamar Smith (R -
21)
Yea
Tom DeLay (R - 22)
Yea
Henry Bonilla (R - 23)
Yea
Martin Frost (D -
24)
Nay
Ken Bentsen (D -
25)
Nay
Richard K. Armey (R -
26)
Yea
Solomon P. Ortiz (D -
27)
Nay
Ciro D. Rodriguez (D -
28)
Nay
Gene Green (D -
29)
Nay
Eddie Bernice Johnson (D -
30)
Nay
Utah
James V. Hansen (R -
1)
Yea
Merrill
Cook (R - 2)
Yea
Christopher B. Cannon (R -
3)
Yea
Vermont
Bernard Sanders (I
- At
Large) Nay
Virginia
Herbert H. Bateman
(R -
1) Yea
Owen B. Pickett (D -
2)
Nay
Robert C. Scott (D -
3)
Nay
Norman Sisisky (D -
4)
Yea
Virgil H. Goode, Jr. (I -
5)
Yea
Bob Goodlatte (R -
6)
Yea
Tom Bliley (R -
7)
Yea
James P. Moran (D -
8)
Yea
Rick Boucher (D -
9)
Yea
Frank R. Wolf (R -
10)
Yea
Thomas M. Davis III (R -
11)
Yea
Washington
Jay Inslee (D -
1)
Yea
Jack Metcalf (R -
2)
Yea
Brian Baird (D -
3)
Yea
Doc Hastings (R -
4)
Yea
George Nethercutt (R - 5)
Yea
Norm Dicks (D -
6)
Nay
Jim McDermott (D -
7)
No Vote
Jennifer B. Dunn (R -
8)
Yea
Adam Smith (D -
9)
No Vote
West Virginia
Alan B.
Mollohan (D - 1)
Yea
Bob Wise (D - 2)
Yea
Nick J. Rahall II (D -
3)
Yea
Wisconsin
Paul Ryan (R -
1)
Yea
Tammy Baldwin (D -
2)
Nay
Ron Kind (D -
3)
No Vote
Jerry Kleczka (D -
4)
Nay
Thomas M. Barrett (D -
5)
Nay
Thomas E. Petri (R -
6)
Yea
David R. Obey (D -
7)
Nay
Mark Green (R -
8)
Yea
F. James Sensenbrenner (R - 9)
Yea
Wyoming
Barbara
Cubin (R - At Large) Yea
