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House Roll Call 1083, 96th Congress · August 19, 1980

TO AMEND H.R. 7583 BY PROHIBITING THE IRS FROM IMPLEMENTING PROPOSED REGULATIONS TO ELIMINATE THE TAX EXEMPT STATUS OF PRIVATE AND RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS ALLEGEDLY NOT COMPLYING WITH FEDERAL DEREGULATION AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION REQUIREMENTS. (MOTION PASSED)

308 yea · 85 nay39 not voting or present
Democrat155 yea · 81 nay
Republican152 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 7583

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1981

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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(0.85): Protecting tax-exempt status preserves tax exemptions and lowers tax burdens.

    Tagged by: keyword:irs

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”

    model(0.85): Blocking enforcement of affirmative action rules for private schools weakens civil rights protections.

    Tagged by: keyword:affirmative action

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A policy rider blocking IRS regulations is incidental on a fiscal axis.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (308)

Nay (85)

Not voting or present (39)

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