Senate Roll Call 950, 95th Congress · August 14, 1978
TO AMEND H.R. 12050, THE BILL PROVIDING FOR A FEDERAL INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR TUITION, BY ESTABLISHING AN INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY TAXES PAID FOR THE SUPPORT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Tuition Tax Relief Act
Policy area: Taxation — 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): Establishing a new tax credit lowers federal tax revenue.
Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”
model(0.90): Creating a federal tax credit to support school property taxes expands the federal role in education policy.
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 (21)
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Jesse Helms
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Ted F. Stevens
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
Nay (71)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- 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
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
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