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House Roll Call 977, 95th Congress · May 15, 1978

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS, AS AMENDED, H.R. 4030, THE BILL AMENDING THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1954 SO THAT THE HAUSS-HELMS FOUNDATION OF WAPAKONETA, OHIO MAY CONTINUE TO HOLD 51% OF THE STOCK OF A LOCAL PUBLIC UTILITY WITHOUT INCURRING A TAX ON EXCESS BUSINESS HOLDINGS.

218 yea · 145 nay69 not voting or present
Democrat101 yea · 132 nay
Republican116 yea · 13 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4030

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase the amount of the stock which certain private foundations may hold in certain public utilities without being subject to the excise tax on excess business holdings.

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): Exempts a foundation from paying taxes on excess business holdings.

    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 (219)

Nay (146)

Not voting or present (69)

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