Senate Roll Call 360, 95th Congress · September 9, 1977
TO TABLE THE ROTH AMENDMENT TO S. CON. RES. 43. THE ROTH AMENDMENT WOULD HAVE REDUCED REVENUE LEVELS BY $175 MILLION IN ORDER TO ACCOMODATE A $250 TAX CREDIT FOR FULL-TIME COLLEGE STUDENTS.
25 yea · 59 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat23 yea · 31 nay
Republican3 yea · 28 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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 “Raise revenue”
model(0.90): Tabling a tuition tax credit prevents revenue loss.
Tagged by: keyword:tax credit
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 (26)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Gary Warren Hart
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (60)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (14)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- Richard G. LugarDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Claiborne de Borda PellDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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