Senate Roll Call 771, 95th Congress · April 25, 1978
TO AMEND S. CON. RES. 80 BY REDUCING THE RECOMMENDED TOTAL REVENUE LEVEL FROM $443.3 BILLION TO $438.4 BILLION IN ORDER TO ACCOMODATE A $25 BILLION TAX CUT PLANNED FOR OCTOBER 1, 1978.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the U.S. Government for the fiscal year 1979.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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): Lowering recommended revenue levels to accommodate a $25 billion tax cut moves toward cutting taxes.
Tagged by: keyword:tax cut
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.85): Lowering recommended revenue to accommodate tax cuts expands the federal budget deficit.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (22)
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (66)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (12)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Carl Thomas CurtisDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Paul Gerhart HatfieldDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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