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House Roll Call 946, 95th Congress · May 4, 1978

TO OFFER AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE COUGHLIN AMENDMENT (SEE RC 285) TO H. CON. RES. 559. THE LUKEN SUBSTITUTE REDUCES THE TARGET FOR TOTAL REVENUES BY $635 MILLION IN ORDER TO ACCOMODATE A PROPOSED PROGRAM OF TUITION TAX CREDITS FOR ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY AND POSTSECONDARY LEVEL STUDENTS.

199 yea · 173 nay36 not voting or present
Democrat99 yea · 152 nay
Republican109 yea · 35 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Con.Res. 559

A resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year 1979.

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.

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.90): Creating a federal tuition tax credit program expands the federal role in education.

    Tagged by: keyword:tuition

    Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Lowering target revenues to provide tax credits increases fiscal expansion.

    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 (211)

Nay (187)

Not voting or present (36)

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