Will cut taxes.

Andy Barr · Kentucky · Republican

policy impact 0.74 specificity 0.42 extraction confidence 92%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Evidence

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Roll Call 699 was on H.R. 1, identified as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act; the vote passed 224-201. The member list records Barr, Republican of Kentucky, as voting Yea.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Barr voted for final House passage of the 2017 federal tax-cut bill.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives - Roll Call 699, H.R. 1
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 98%

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Congress.gov lists H.R. 1 as Public Law 115-97 and summarizes it as amending the Internal Revenue Code to reduce tax rates for individuals and businesses.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The bill Barr supported became law and directly reduced federal tax rates.

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Congress.gov - H.R.1, 115th Congress
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 97%

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The actions page records House agreement to the Senate amendment on December 20, 2017, presentation to the President on December 21, and becoming Public Law 115-97 on December 22.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official legislative history confirms H.R. 1 completed enactment after Barr's yea vote.

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Congress.gov - Actions for H.R.1, 115th Congress
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GovInfo identifies Public Law 115-97 as H.R. 1, approved December 22, 2017, with legislative history showing House concurrence on December 20.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The enacted public law record confirms the tax legislation became binding federal law.

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GovInfo - Public Law 115-97
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%

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The enacted text includes Section 11001, Modification of Rates, applying new individual tax-rate tables for tax years 2018 through 2025.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The statute itself implemented lower individual income tax rates, a concrete tax cut.

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Public Law 115-97 Text
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Section 13001 establishes a 21 percent corporate tax rate for taxable income, replacing the prior graduated corporate rate structure.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The enacted law cut the federal corporate income tax rate, further satisfying a broad promise to cut taxes.

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Public Law 115-97 Text
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CBO and JCT reported that the agreement's distributional effects included increased deficits for higher-income tax filing units primarily from tax reductions.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Nonpartisan congressional analysis confirms H.R. 1 contained revenue-reducing tax cuts, not merely tax restructuring.

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Congressional Budget Office - Distributional Effects of Changes in Taxes and Spending Under the Conference Agreement for H.R. 1
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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): delivered. later_term

Barr materially supported a major federal tax-cut bill by voting yea on final House passage of H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The bill became Public Law 115-97 on December 22, 2017 and reduced individual and corporate federal income tax rates, satisfying the broad promise to cut taxes. Because the evidence classifies enactment as occurring in a later term relative to the campaign context, timing is later_term.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%