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House Roll Call 1042, 95th Congress · June 1, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 12050 BY INCREASING THE TUITION TAX CREDIT FROM 25% TO 50% OF TUITION EXPENSES.

142 yea · 261 nay19 not voting or present
Democrat70 yea · 201 nay
Republican74 yea · 67 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12050 ↗

Tuition Tax Relief 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): Increasing tax credits cuts tax burden.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.90): Increasing education tax credits expands federal involvement in education.

    Tagged by: keyword:tuition

    Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

Who voted which way

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

Yea (147)

Nay (268)

Not voting or present (19)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.