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Senate Roll Call 1089, 95th Congress · October 6, 1978

TO AGREE TO A MODIFIED AMENDMENT TO H.R. 13511 THAT PROVIDES FOR TUITION TAX CREDITS AND FOR A $4.5 BILLION INCREASE IN THE PROPOSED TAX CUT FOR 1979. (SEE RC 452

67 yea · 26 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat39 yea · 18 nay
Republican27 yea · 8 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 13511

Revenue Act of 1978

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): Providing tuition tax credits and expanding tax cuts reduces tax revenue.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.85): Creating federal tuition tax credits expands the federal role in supporting 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 (67)

Nay (26)

Not voting or present (7)

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