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Senate Roll Call 957, 95th Congress · August 15, 1978

TO SUSTAIN THE RULING OF THE CHAIR THAT THE PROPOSED LONG AMENDMENT #1658 TO H.R. 12050 WAS OUT OF ORDER ON THE GROUNDS THAT IT CALLED FOR SPENDING AUTHORITY UNAUTHORIZED BY LAW. AMENDMENT #1658 CALLS FOR THE REFUNDING OF TUITION TAX CREDITS IN EXCESS OF WHAT IS OWED IN TAXES, THEREBY BENEFITTING PERSONS PAYING LOW INCOME TAXES.

75 yea · 21 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat47 yea · 10 nay
Republican27 yea · 11 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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Sustaining a ruling of the chair is a procedural vote.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • EducationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Sustaining a procedural ruling of the chair is a procedural floor vote.

    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 (75)

Nay (21)

Not voting or present (4)

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