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House Roll Call 1529, 112th Congress · September 19, 2012

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions, and to provide for the return of previously distributed funds for deficit reduction

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

310 yea · 95 nayPassed24 not voting or present
Democrat85 yea · 95 nay
Republican224 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5912 ↗

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions.

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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Ending public financing for political conventions alters program spending rather than tax rates or tax collection.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.95): Eliminating public convention funding and returning funds for deficit reduction reduces federal spending.

    Tagged by: keyword:deficit reduction

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (310)

Nay (95)

Not voting or present (24)

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