an amendment to allow payroll taxes to be included in the calculation of eligibility for the $500-per-child tax credit, offset by phasing out eligibility for the credit at 75,000 per family instead of $150,000 per family. [Vote 140, 6/27/97] CONSUMER TAX BREAKS XXXX Voted Against Extending Renewable Energy Tax Credit. In March 2006, XXXX voted against extending the renewable energy production tax credit for four years. The budget amendment also would have provided $4 billion for LIHEAP and other energy and conservation programs. [Vote 42, 3/14/06; Albuquerque Tribune, 3/15/06] XXXX Voted Against Energy Tax Credit for Farmers. In November 2005, XXXX voted against providing a Federal tax credit to farmers for 30 percent of their 2005 energy costs up to $3,000 per farmer. Qualified energy costs included those for fuels, utilities, fertilizers, heating and drying used in farming businesses of taxpayers during calendar year 2005. The $3 billion tax credit would be offset by closing tax loopholes for big oil companies. [Vote 345, 11/17/05; Congressional Record, 11/17/05] CORPORATE TAX BREAKS XXXX Voted To Keep Tax Cuts Rather Than Fund Veteran’s Healthcare. In 2006, XXXX voted against eliminating certain tax cuts in order to increase funding for military retirees’ health care by $735 million. [Vote 67, 3/16/06; CQ, 3/16/06] XXXX Voted For Corporate Tax Breaks Instead Of Funding Title I Education. In 2006, Senator XXXX voted against eliminating corporate tax breaks in order to increase Title I education funding by $3 billion. [Vote 64, 3/16/06; CQ, 3/16/06] XXXX Voted For Corporate Tax Breaks Instead Of Funding National Parks. In 2006, Senator XXXX voted against increasing civil works funding – including funding for the Corps of Engineers and the National Park Service – by $2.9 billion, to be offset by eliminating certain corporate tax breaks. [Vote 60, 3/16/06; CQ, 3/16/06] XXXX Voted For Corporate Tax Breaks Instead Of Funding Amtrak. In 2006, XXXX voted against eliminating corporate tax breaks in order to increase Amtrak funding by $550 million. [Vote 51, 3/15/06; CQ, 3/15/06] XXXX Voted For Corporate Tax Breaks Instead Of Funding Veterans Healthcare. In 2006, XXXX voted against eliminating certain corporate tax breaks in order to increase veterans’ medical funding by $1.5 billion. [Vote 41, 3/14/06; CQ, 3/14/06] XXXX Twice Rejected Windfall Profits Tax for Big Oil in 2005. In November 2005, XXXX voted against imposing a temporary 50% tax on oil company profits from the sale of any crude oil above $40 a barrel. Revenues from the tax would be used to provide income tax rebates to consumers. The same day, XXXX voted against a separate but similar windfall tax amendment that would use the revenue to provide a $100 income tax credit for every personal exemption. [Vote 331, 11/17/05; Vote 341, 11/17/05; Houston Chronicle, 11/17/05; Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/18/05; Environment and Energy Daily¸ 11/18/05] XXXX Voted to Overhaul Corporate Taxes. In October 2004, XXXX voted for a bill that would repeal an export provision in the U.S. tax code that has been ruled an unfair subsidy by the World Trade Organization, and would provide for $137 billion in new tax cuts for corporations over 10 years. It also includes a $10 billion buyout of tobacco farmers. The cost of the tax breaks would be offset by curbs on tax-avoidance practices. [HR 4520, Vote 211, 10/11/04] XXXX Voted to Extend Family and Corporate Tax Breaks. In September 2004, XXXX voted for a bill that would extend the $1,000 per child tax credit through 2009, the upper limit for the current 10 percent bracket 270