Senate Roll Call 604, 93rd Congress · January 24, 1974
TO AMEND H.R. 8214 BY INCREASING PERSONAL INCOME TAX EXEMPTION FROM $750 TO $850.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An Act to modify the tax treatment of members of the Armed Forces of the United States and civilian employees who are prisoners of war or missing in action, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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): Increasing the personal income tax exemption lowers tax revenue.
Tagged by: keyword:income tax
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Increasing personal tax exemptions is a general tax policy, not defense or military policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (56)
- James George Abourezk
- George David Aiken
- James Browning Allen
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Alan Harvey Bible
- William Emerson Brock III
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Alan Cranston
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James William Fulbright
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (27)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Norris H. Cotton
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- James Oliver Eastland
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Russell Billiu Long
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Robert Taft Jr.
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
Not voting or present (18)
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Peter Hoyt DominickDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Clifford Peter HansenDid not vote
- Rupert Vance HartkeDid not vote
- Jesse HelmsDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
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