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House Roll Call 1501, 95th Congress · October 12, 1978

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS, AS AMENDED, H.R. 9893, THE BILL AMENDING THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1954 SO AS TO INCREASE THE INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR THE ELDERLY.

388 yea · 5 nay35 not voting or present
Democrat252 yea · 5 nay
Republican135 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 9893

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase the adjusted gross income limitation on the Credit for the Elderly, to increase the amount of such credit.

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 an income tax credit reduces tax revenues.

    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 (390)

Nay (5)

Not voting or present (35)

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