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Senate Roll Call 237, 94th Congress · June 20, 1975

TO TABLE SEN. CHILES AMENDMENT, IN THE NATURE OF A A SUBSTITUTE FOR SEN. LONG'S AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6900. SEN. CHILES AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT, IN THE CASE OF TAX CREDIT FOR PURCHASE OF A NEW PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE, THE PURCHASE PRICE IS THE LOWEST PRICE AT WHICH THE RESIDENCE WAS OFFERED FOR SALE AS OF FEB. 28, 1975. THE ORIGINAL LONG AMENDMENT PROVIDED FOR A $2000 CASH REBATE INSTEAD OF TAX CREDIT AND ALSO PROVIDED THAT THE REBATE BE EXTENDED TO HOUSES UNDER CONSTRUCTION BY JUNE 19, 1975, INSTEAD OF MARC

32 yea · 43 nay21 not voting or present
Democrat26 yea · 23 nay
Republican7 yea · 20 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6900

Emergency Compensation and Special Unemployment Assistance Extension Act of 1975

Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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(0.80): Tabling an amendment that restricted tax credit eligibility preserves a broader tax cut.

    Tagged by: keyword:tax credit

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Labor & WagesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Tabling a housing tax credit amendment in an unemployment bill does not map directly to labor priorities.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

Who voted which way

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

Yea (33)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (21)

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