"adequate resources" for new spending on health care, education, Social Security, and Medicare. The motion to waive was rejected, 41-58. [HR 1836, Vote 144, 5/22/01] XXXX Voted For A Republican Amendment To Make Small Business Health Insurance Costs Tax Deductible. In 2001, XXXX voted for an amendment that would adjust the functional totals to provide $70 billion more in tax cuts in order to accommodate the enactment of the following health insurance tax credits for small businesses: a tax credit to purchase health insurance for employees; a tax credit to make long-term care insurance deductible; and a tax credit to make health insurance costs deductible (for both self-employed people and people whose employers do not provide health insurance). The amendment failed 49-51. [H Con Res 83, Vote 83, 4/5/01] XXXX Voted Against Considering An Amendment To Provide A Small Business Tax Credit For Health Insurance. In 2000, XXXX voted against a motion to waive the Budget Act for the consideration of the Durbin amendment (No. 3852) to the Marriage Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2000 (H.R. 4810). The amendment would provide a tax credit to small businesses that offered health insurance coverage to their employees. The motion was rejected, 49-49. [Vote 205, 7/17/00] XXXX Voted Against An Amendment To Deny Tax Cuts And Expand Health Insurance Coverage. In 2000, XXXX voted against an amendment that would adjust the functional totals to deny $11.2 billion over 5 years of the $150 billion in tax cuts that would be provided by the resolution. It would also adjust the functional totals in order to increase total Federal spending by that amount, with the intention that the extra spending would be used to expand the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to cover adults as well as children. The amendment was rejected, 49-49. [Vote 78, 4/7/00] XXXX Opposed An Amendment That Would Expand Health Insurance Spending. In 2000, XXXX voted against an amendment that would scale down tax cuts in the budget resolution, and use the difference to increase spending for the Children’s Health Insurance Program to cover adults as well as children. The motion to table failed, 49-49. [Vote 77, 4/7/00] XXXX Cast Crucial Vote, Opposed An Amendment To Make Health Insurance Costs Fully Deductible For The Self-Employed. In 1999, XXXX supported an effort to kill an amendment (No. 2751) to the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999 that would enact several health care provisions, including a provision establishing severe new civil penalties for false certification of eligibility for hospice care under Medicare. It also included tax cuts to make the health insurance costs of the self- employed fully deductible. The motion to table was agreed to, 50-48. [Vote 356, 11/9/99] HEALTH CARE FUNDING XXXX Led Attempt To Slash $9 Billion in Funding for Education, Health Care and Other Domestic Priorities. In October 2007, XXXX led effort by 40 Senate Republicans to slash $9 billion in funding for essential priorities in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, such as No Child Left Behind funding, research for medical cures, child care assistance for working families, and Pell Grants. [Vote 390, 10/23/07; CQ Today, 10/23/07; Los Angeles Times, 2/6/07; Education Week, 2/12/07] XXXX Voted For A Motion to Ensure $1 Billion in Health Funding Was Not Cut out Of Budget. In November 2005, XXXX voted for a motion to instruct the members of the Conference Committee on Labor-HHS- Education Appropriation Bill, to insist that the final bill fund the National Institutes of Health at the level laid out in the Senate’s version of the bill. The Senate bill included an increase of $1 billion in funding for the NIH. [Vote 350, 11/18/05] XXXX Voted Against Prioritizing Children’s Healthcare Over Tax Cuts for Richest Americans. In November 2005, XXXX voted to kill an amendment to the Tax Reconciliation Bill that would have prioritized children’s healthcare over high-income tax cuts. The amendment would have expressed the sense of the Senate, that the 15 percent dividend and capital gains tax cuts should not be extended until the federal government provided 175