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Senate Roll Call 489, 115th Congress · July 24, 2018

To increase the amount available for a Community Volunteer Income Tax Assistance matching grants program for tax return preparation assistance.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

98 yea · 1 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat46 yea · 0 nay
Republican49 yea · 1 nay
Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6147 ↗

Interior, Environment, Financial Services and General Government, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2019

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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 (0.95) Funding grant assistance is a spending program, not a tax rate or revenue policy.

    Tagged by: keyword:income tax

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Increasing funding for a grant program expands fiscal outlays.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (98)

Nay (1)

Not voting or present (1)

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