Senate Roll Call 1100, 95th Congress · October 9, 1978
THAT THE SENATE SUSTAIN THE RULING OF THE CHAIR THAT THE HEINZ AMENDMENT #4078 TO H.R. 13511 IS OUT OF ORDER BECAUSE IT WOULD CAUSE U.S. REVENUES TO BE LESS THAN THE APPROPRIATE LEVEL OF REVENUES SET FORTH IN THE SECOND CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE FEDERAL BUDGET. HEINZ AMENDMENT #4078 PROVIDES FOR A $75 REFUNDABLE TAX CREDIT FOR THE ELDERLY FOR ENERGY-RELATED EXPENSES.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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.
- TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Sustaining a procedural ruling of the Chair is floor procedure.
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 (66)
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Anthony Durkin
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (22)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
Not voting or present (12)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
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