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Senate Roll Call 1104, 95th Congress · October 9, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 13511 BY AUTHORIZING ACROSS-THE-BOARD TAX REDUCTIONS OF APPROXIMATELY 5% FOR FISCAL YEARS 1979 THROUGH 1983, PROVIDED THAT THE RATE OF GROWTH OF NATIONAL OUTLAYS DOES NOT EXCEED 1%, AND PROVIDED THAT A BALANCED BUDGET IS ACHEIVED BY THE END OF FISCAL YEAR 1982.

65 yea · 20 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat37 yea · 17 nay
Republican29 yea · 4 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): Authorizing across-the-board tax cuts cuts taxes.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.95): Limiting outlay growth to 1% and requiring a balanced budget enforces fiscal restraint.

    Tagged by: keyword:balanced budget

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (67)

Nay (21)

Not voting or present (12)

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