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Senate Roll Call 1098, 95th Congress · October 7, 1978

TO TABLE KENNEDY AMENDMENT #3890 TO H.R. 13511, AN AMENDMENT THAT PHASES IN, OVER A THREE-YEAR PERIOD, A PROVISION THAT ULTIMATELY ALLOWS ONLY 50% OF THE COST OF BUSINESS MEALS TO BE USED FOR TAX REDUCTIONS.

49 yea · 9 nay36 not voting or present
Democrat26 yea · 12 nay
Republican25 yea · 0 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): Tabling an amendment that restricts meal deductions prevents a tax increase.

    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 (52)

Nay (12)

Not voting or present (36)

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