Senate Roll Call 115, 95th Congress · April 28, 1977

TO AMEND H.R. 3477 BY OMITTING FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL AID TO A CHILD IN A HOUSEHOLD FROM THE CALCULATIONS FOR EARNED INCOME CREDIT FOR THAT HOUSEHOLD.

35 yea · 56 nay6 not voting or present

Democrat24 yea · 33 nay

Republican13 yea · 23 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3477 ↗

Tax Reduction and Simplification Act of 1977

Policy area: Income tax — 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(0.90): Excluding aid from income calculations increases earned income credit benefits, cutting taxes.
Tagged by: policy-area:Income tax
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 (37)

Nay (57)

Not voting or present (6)

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