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House Roll Call 1504, 95th Congress · October 12, 1978

TO RECOMMIT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 12050 TO THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE WITH INSTRUCTIONS THAT THE HOUSE CONFEREES INSIST ON HOUSE LANGUAGE THAT EXTENDS THE BILL TO COVER TUITION PAID TO ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS. H.R. 12050 AMENDS THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1954 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR A FEDERAL INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR TUITION.

207 yea · 185 nay28 not voting or present
Democrat107 yea · 155 nay
Republican102 yea · 35 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(0.90): Expanding tuition tax credits reduces tax revenue.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.85): Expanding federal tax credits to elementary and secondary tuition expands the federal role 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 (212)

Nay (190)

Not voting or present (28)

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