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House Roll Call 518, 105th Congress · October 23, 1997

Education Savings Act for Public and Private Schools — (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 2646, TO AMEND THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986 TO ALLOW TAX-FREE EXPENDITURES FROM EDUCATION INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL EXPENSES, TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM ANNUAL AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO SUCH ACCOUNTS. .)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

230 yea · 198 nayPassed6 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 188 nay
Republican216 yea · 9 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2646 ↗

Parent and Student Savings Account PLUS Act

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): Expanding tax-free Education IRA expenditures and contribution limits cuts federal taxes.

    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 (230)

Nay (198)

Not voting or present (6)

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