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Senate Roll Call 955, 95th Congress · August 15, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 12050 BY PROVIDING FOR A PHASE-OUT OF THE TAX CREDIT FOR HIGHER EDUCATION AS THE FAMILY'S ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME EXCEEDS $30,000.

39 yea · 58 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat35 yea · 23 nay
Republican4 yea · 34 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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): Phasing out a tax credit for higher incomes reduces tax cuts and raises tax revenue relative to an uncapped credit.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (39)

Nay (58)

Not voting or present (3)

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