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Senate Roll Call 771, 100th Congress · October 6, 1988

TO AMEND S 2238, TECHNICAL TAX CORRECTIONS, TO ALLOW INCOME USED FROM U.S. SAVINGS BONDS TO PAY FOR TUITION AND FEES AT AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION TO BE COUNTED AS NON-TAXABLE INCOME.

94 yea · 0 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat51 yea · 0 nay
Republican44 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2238

Technical Corrections Act of 1988

Policy area: Taxation — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

    model(0.90): Excluding U.S. savings bond interest for tuition from taxable income is a tax exemption.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.85): Providing a tax exemption for U.S. savings bond interest used for tuition expands federal education support.

    Tagged by: keyword:tuition

    Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (95)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (5)

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