Senate Roll Call 617, 95th Congress · November 4, 1977
TO AMEND H.R. 9346 BY AUTHORIZING A REFUNDABLE TAX CREDIT OF 10% FROM THE GENERAL FUND FOR STATES, MUNICIPALITIES, PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLEGES AND OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS FOR THEIR TOTAL SOCIAL SECURITY LIABILITIES.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Social Security Amendments of 1977
Policy area: Social Welfare — 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(0.85): Authorizing a refundable tax credit reduces net tax liability, cutting taxes.
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 (58)
- James George Abourezk
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Edward William Brooke III
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Richard Clarence Clark
- 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
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (28)
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- James Albertus McClure
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (14)
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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