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Senate Roll Call 954, 95th Congress · August 15, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 12050 BY LIMITING THE TAX CREDIT FOR TUITION TO POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION.

56 yea · 41 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat39 yea · 19 nay
Republican16 yea · 22 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12050

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 “Raise revenue”

    model(0.90): Limiting eligibility for a tax credit restricts tax cuts and preserves government revenue.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Reduce federal role”

    model(0.85): Restricting tax credits to postsecondary education narrows the federal involvement in lower 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 (56)

Nay (41)

Not voting or present (3)

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