House Roll Call 1085, 96th Congress · August 20, 1980

TO AMEND H.R. 7583 BY PROHIBITING THE USE OF IRS FUNDS TO DISQUALIFY ANY POLITICALLY NONPARTISAN ORGANIZATION FROM AN EXEMPTION AS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION FOR PUBLISHING OR DISTRIBUTING VOTER GUIDES RELATING TO ANY POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. (MOTION PASSED)

205 yea · 188 nay27 not voting or present

Democrat64 yea · 181 nay

Republican144 yea · 13 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 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 nonprofit tax exemptions prevents tax increases on affected groups.
Tagged by: keyword:irs
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A policy rider regarding IRS nonprofit qualifications 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 (211)

Nay (194)

Not voting or present (27)

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