Senate Roll Call 626, 95th Congress · November 4, 1977
TO AGREE TO A MODIFIED AMENDMENT TO H.R. 9346 THAT PROVIDES FOR A TUITION TAX CREDIT OF $250 PER DEPENDENT THAT IS ENROLLED FULL TIME IN AN INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
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): Establishing a tuition tax credit cuts taxes for eligible taxpayers.
Tagged by: keyword:tax credit
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”
model(0.85): Establishing a tuition tax credit expands federal financial support 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 (68)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- 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
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (14)
Not voting or present (18)
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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