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House Roll Call 1088, 105th Congress · September 26, 1998

H.R.4579 BY ARCHER (R-TX) -- TAXPAYER RELIEF ACT OF 1998 AMERICAN COMMUNITY RENEWAL ACT OF 1998 RENEWING AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ACT OF 1998 (HOUSE REJECTED THE RANGEL AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE, THAT CONTAINS THE TAX CUTS AS IN THE COMMITTEE REPORTED BILL AND ESTABLISHES A TRIGGER MECHANISM UNDER WHICH MOST OF THE TAX CUTS WOULD NOT TAKE EFFECT UNTIL CONGRESS ENACTS LEGISLATION TO ENSURE THE LONG TERM SOLVENCY OF SOCIAL SECURITY. THE TRIGGER MECHANISM WOULD NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENSION OF EXPIRING PROVISIONS AND THE INCREASE IN THE EARNINGS LIMITATION ON SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

197 yea · 227 nayFailed11 not voting or present
Democrat194 yea · 6 nay
Republican2 yea · 221 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4579 ↗

Taxpayer Relief Act of 1998

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 “Raise revenue”

    model(0.85): Conditioning tax cuts on Social Security solvency delays rate reductions and preserves revenue.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    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 (197)

Nay (227)

Not voting or present (11)

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