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Senate Roll Call 1099, 95th Congress · October 9, 1978

TO TABLE THE CHURCH AMENDMENT TO H.R. 13511, AN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD GRADUALLY REPEAL THE CURRENT LAW THAT ALLOWS U.S. CORPORATIONS TO DEFER THEIR TAXES PAYABLE ON FOREIGN EARNINGS UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT THEIR PROFITS ARE REPATRIATED.

61 yea · 17 nay18 not voting or present
Democrat33 yea · 17 nay
Republican31 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 repealing foreign tax deferral preserves the tax break.

    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 (65)

Nay (17)

Not voting or present (18)

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