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House Roll Call 1088, 96th Congress · August 20, 1980

TO AMEND H.R. 7583 BY PROHIBITING THE USE OF IRS FUNDS TO PROMULGATE ANY POLICY OR REGULATION WHICH WOULD CAUSE THE LOSS OF TAX EXEMPT STATUS TO PRIVATE, RELIGIOUS, OR CHURCH OPERATED SCHOOLS, AFTER THE DATE OF ENACTMENT OF THIS ACT. (MOTION PASSED)

300 yea · 107 nay19 not voting or present
Democrat147 yea · 104 nay
Republican156 yea · 3 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): Prohibiting regulations revoking school tax exemptions preserves tax-exempt status, lowering tax burdens.

    Tagged by: keyword:irs

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A rider blocking IRS tax-exempt regulations is a policy fight; spending is incidental.

    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 (304)

Nay (109)

Not voting or present (19)

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