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House Roll Call 486, 95th Congress · September 8, 1977

TO AMEND H. CON. RES. 341 BY INCREASING THE DEFICIT BY $175 MILLION SO AS TO FUND A TAX CREDIT PROGRAM FOR FULL-TIME COLLEGE OR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION STUDENTS.

311 yea · 76 nay45 not voting or present
Democrat183 yea · 69 nay
Republican126 yea · 8 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Con.Res. 341

A concurrent resolution revising the congressional budget for the U.S. Government for the fiscal year l978.

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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): Funding a tax credit program reduces tax revenues.

    Tagged by: keyword:tax credit

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Increasing the deficit by $175 million expands spending.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (312)

Nay (77)

Not voting or present (45)

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