Senate Roll Call 959, 95th Congress · August 15, 1978
TO PASS H.R. 12050.
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): Passing a bill that creates tuition tax credits reduces federal tax revenue.
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 (65)
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (27)
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (8)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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