Senate Roll Call 118, 95th Congress · April 28, 1977
TO AMEND H.R. 3477 BY RAISING THE STANDARD DEDUCTION FOR SINGLE PERSONS FROM $2,200 TO $2,400.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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(0.95): Raising the standard deduction lowers taxable income and cuts 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 (36)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
Nay (56)
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittPresent
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
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