Senate Roll Call 625, 95th Congress · November 4, 1977
TO TABLE KENNEDY AMENDMENT #1060 TO THE ROTH AMENDMENT (SEE RC 626) TO H.R. 9346. KENNEDY AMENDMENT #1060 REDUCES THE TUITION TAX CREDIT FOR TAXPAYERS WITH AN ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME OF MORE THAN $25,000 ANNUALLY.
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): Tabling an amendment that restricts tax credit eligibility preserves a larger tax cut.
Tagged by: keyword:tax credit
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”
model(0.85): Tabling an income cap on tuition tax credits preserves broad federal tax subsidies for higher education.
Tagged by: keyword:tuition
Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (55)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (22)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (23)
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Robert Burren MorganDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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