Information about the vote from special interest groups and other information providers in our Report Cards:
FreedomWorks
On the Motion: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act lowers individual rates for the vast majority of taxpayers. In addition, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act nearly doubles the standard deduction, meaning Americans keep more of their hard-earned money, and doubles the child tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000. This bill also provides relief by doubling the exemption amount from the unfair death tax. Pass-through business owners, who file their taxes on their individual tax return, will be able to take a 20 percent deduction. This lowers the tax burden currently faced by pass-through businesses, which, according to the Tax Foundation, employ 70 million people, and promotes fairness. America’s business community will also see added growth as a result of the policy changes in this bill. The corporate tax rate will be lowered substantially from 35 percent to 21 percent, making American businesses more globally competitive and allowing them the resources they need to innovate and create jobs. It also eliminates confusion and complexity so job creators can focus on building their company and hiring working Americans. This bill also repeals the harmful ObamaCare individual mandate, a coercive tax on Americans. It’s estimated that 80 percent of households subject to this tax earn less than $50,000 per year. This is an unnecessary hardship being placed on working Americans. The federal government should not punish individuals who cannot afford ObamaCare’s costly health insurance plans or decide it is not the best course for them.
Associated Builders and Contractors
H.R. 1 On the Motion (Motion to Recede from the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1 and Concur with Further Amendment) -- Motion to Recede from the Senate Amendment.
H.R. 1 On the Motion (Motion to Recede from the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1 and Concur with Further Amendment) -- Motion to Recede from the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1 and Concur with Further Amendment. Passed.
National Taxpayers Union
s2017-323.
s2017-323.
League of Conservation Voters
ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL TAX BILL THAT OPENS DRILLING IN THE ARCTIC REFUGE.
Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX) sponsored H.R. 1, the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, which sells out key environmental priorities to deliver a massive tax cut for millionaires, billionaires, and huge corporations. The bill increases the deficit by $1.5 trillion, harming people nationwide by likely resulting in cuts to safeguards for our air, water, lands and wildlife. The legislation puts our clean energy future at risk while maintaining giveaways to fossil fuel interests. The conference report for H.R. 1 even turns the pristine and sacred Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into an industrial oil field. Following its passage in the House, the Senate approved the conference report for H.R. 1. President Trump signed H.R. 1 into law.
NAACP
TAX OVERHAUL.
Final passage of the final version ("conference report") of the tax overhaul bill. The bill, which will cost the U.S. treasury $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years, contains a permanent reduction in the corporate tax level, by more than 10%, from 35% to 21%. The new law also ends the Individual Mandate, a central tenant of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. "Obamacare"). The result will be an estimated 13 million fewer people having health care within a decade. The conference report was agreed to. President Trump went on to sign the bill into law.
American Conservative Union
HR 1 Comprehensive Tax Reform.
This bill substantially reduces taxes on corporations and small business, reduces individual income tax rates from top to bottom, increases the standard deduction for individuals and the exemption for the Death Tax and repeals Obamacare’s individual mandate beginning in 2019. Although the bill does not include provisions advocated by this group, including simplifying the tax code, abolishing the Death Tax and abolishing the Alternative Minimum Tax, this group supported the bill as a good first step in passing more comprehensive tax reform. The Senate passed the bill. This vote was double-weighted due to its impact in expanding the overall American economy.
AFL-CIO
Tax Cuts for the Rich and Corporations (H.R. 1).
Tax Cuts for the Rich and Corporations (H.R. 1).
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act - Senate H.R. 1.
This group urges Congress to complete its final step to enact comprehensive, pro-growth tax reform legislation and pass the conference report to accompany H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
By passing the conference report, Congress would unleash resources for businesses large and small to hire new workers, expand facilities, and purchase new equipment. Bringing about tax reform would help ensure that these investments are made here in the United States, and these investments would lead to higher wages and catalyze broad economic growth.
Moreover, H.R. 1 would provide additional growth by allowing for environmentally-sensitive oil and gas production in an area in northern Alaska set aside by Congress for energy exploration in 1980.
This group applauds the work of the conferees for reporting a strong pro-growth tax reform bill. The members of the Finance and Ways and Means Committees from this and previous congresses also deserve much credit for their work during this multi-year effort.
Tax reform is a big engine that will power a growing economy for years to come. Only one step remains for Congress to keep its commitment to approving pro-growth, comprehensive tax reform legislation.
NARAL Pro-Choice America
Attack on the ACA.
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, H.R.1. On agreeing to the conference report. Final passage. The conference report overhauls the tax system and eliminates the Affordable Care Act’s requirement for individuals to purchase health insurance. (Some anti-choice lawmakers cast what appear to be pro-choice votes; most observers recognize that those votes were cast for reasons unrelated to reproductive health.) Passed.
National Education Association
TAX CUTS FOR CORPORATIONS AND THE WEALTHY.
This group opposed final passage of the GOP leadership’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1) which would undermine public education funding, create voucher-like schemes for the wealthy, and add $1.5 trillion to the deficit. The legislation passed.
National Federation of Independent Business
H.R. 1 On the Motion (Motion to Recede from the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1 and Concur with Further Amendm.
This group supported this bill.
National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Conference Report) (H.R.1).
This group opposed this final, agreed-upon version of the GOP’s tax overhaul. The bill remained extremely regressive by design, and the tax cuts increase the deficit drastically, endangering future funding for critical programs. The bill also repeals the ACA’s individual mandate. Passed.
Citizens Against Government Waste
Tax Overhaul -- Motion to Recede and Concur.
McConnell, R-Ky., motion that the Senate recede from its amendment and concur in the bill with a further amendment. The bill would revise the federal income tax system by lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent; lowering individual tax rates through 2025; limiting state and local deductions to $10,000 through 2025; decreasing the limit on deductible mortgage debt through 2025; and creating a new system of taxing U.S. corporations with foreign subsidiaries. Specifically, it would repeal personal exemptions and would roughly double the standard deduction through 2025. It would raise the child tax credit to $2,000 through 2025, would repeal the alternative minimum tax for corporations and provide for broader exemptions to the tax for individuals through 2025. It would double individual exemptions to the estate tax and gift tax through 2025, and would establish a new top tax rate for "pass-through" business income through 2025.
The John Birch Society
Tax Cuts.
This bill, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1), would slash the corporate income-tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, cut individual income-tax rates through 2025, and effectively eliminate the tax penalty on Americans who do not purchase health insurance by reducing the penalty amount to zero. The latter was a cornerstone of the 2010 ObamaCare legislation.
The Senate passed the final version of H.R. 1. This group supported this legislation because the tax cuts in this bill will keep more money in the hands of American businesses and consumers, where it can be invested into the economy, thus spurring economic growth. Unfortunately, however, the bill does not address federal spending, which needs to be reined in via other legislation.
Alliance for Retired Americans
Skewed Tax Cuts.
Senator McConnell, R-KY, brought up the tax bill, which provides tax cuts to corporations and wealthy Americans. This legislation will increase the deficit by $1.5 trillion, lead to 13 million Americans becoming uninsured and trigger PAYGO forcing $450 billion cuts to Medicare. The bill passed. H.R. 1.
The Club for Growth
Final passage of the House and Senate compromise on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Final passage of the House and Senate compromise on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
The National Association of Manufacturers
HR1 Conference Report to H.R.1, The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Vote on the Conference Report to H.R.1, The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The Conference Report to H.R. 1 takes the important steps toward addressing five key elements that this groups members believe will set the stage for manufacturing growth: a lower corporate rate, reduced burdens on business income earned by pass-through entities, a territorial tax system, robust incentives for capital equipment purchases and retention of tax incentives for research and development. While this bill could go even further to address these key areas that promote added economic growth, it still provides the opportunity to strengthen the manufacturing economy.