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House Roll Call 1439, 95th Congress · September 25, 1978

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS, AS AMENDED, H.R. 13488, THE BILL AMENDING THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1954 WITH RESPECT TO THE TAXATION OF THE EARNED INCOME OF AMERICANS WORKING ABROAD.

282 yea · 94 nay42 not voting or present
Democrat161 yea · 95 nay
Republican128 yea · 3 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 13488

Foreign Earned Income 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(0.85): Providing tax relief for earned income of Americans working abroad reduces tax revenue.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

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

Yea (292)

Nay (98)

Not voting or present (42)

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