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Senate Roll Call 834, 104th Congress · July 23, 1996

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a refundable credit for adoption expenses and to exclude from gross income employee and military adoption assistance benefits and withdrawals from IRAs for certain adoption expenses. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE AGREED TO A MOTION TO WAIVE SECTIONS 305 AND 310 OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF SHELBY AMENDMENT NO. 4939, TO PROVIDE A REFUNDABLE CREDIT FOR ADOPTION EXPENSES AND TO EXCLUDE FROM GROSS INCOME EMPLOYEE AND MILITARY ADOPTION ASSISTANCE BENEFITS AND WITHDRAWALS FROM IRA'S FOR CERTAIN ADOPTION EXPENSES.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

78 yea · 21 nayMotion Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat32 yea · 15 nay
Republican44 yea · 6 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1956 ↗

Personal Responsibility, Work Opportunity, and Medicaid Restructuring Act of 1996

Policy area: Social Welfare — 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(0.95): Providing a tax credit and income exclusion reduces tax revenue.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

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

Yea (78)

Nay (21)

Not voting or present (1)

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