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Senate Roll Call 878, 104th Congress · August 2, 1996

A bill to provide tax relief for small businesses, to protect jobs, to create opportunities, to increase the take home pay of workers, and for other purposes. — H.R.3448 BY ARCHER (R-TX) -- SMALL BUSINESS JOB PROTECTION ACT OF 1996 GSP RENEWAL ACT OF 1996 EMPLOYEE COMMUTING FLEXIBILITY ACT OF 1996 MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE ACT OF 1996 (PUB. L. 104-188, APPROVED 8/20/96) (SENATE AGREED TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 3448, TO PROVIDE TAX RELIEF FOR SMALL BUSINESSES, TO PROTECT JOBS, TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES, AND TO INCREASE THE TAKE HOME PAY OF WORKERS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Conference Report

76 yea · 22 nayConference Report Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat45 yea · 0 nay
Republican29 yea · 22 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3448 ↗

Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996

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(0.95): The bill provides tax cuts and tax relief for small businesses.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”

    model(0.90): The bill included the Minimum Wage Increase Act, raising federal minimum pay for workers.

    Tagged by: keyword:minimum wage

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

Who voted which way

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

Yea (76)

Nay (22)

Not voting or present (2)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.