House Roll Call 301, 96th Congress · July 13, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 4393, THE TREASURY-POSTAL SERVICE APPROPRIATIONS, BY PROHIBITING USE OF TREASURY APPROPRIATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE COLLECTION OF ANY UNDERPAYMENT OF ANY TAX IMPOSED BY THE IRS UNLESS THE CONDUCT OF IRS EMPLOYEES COMPLIES WITH CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT. (MOTION PASSED)

299 yea · 69 nay44 not voting or present

Democrat172 yea · 70 nay

Republican140 yea · 6 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4392 ↗

Department of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1980

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(0.80): Restricting IRS tax collection enforcement hinders federal tax revenue collection.
Tagged by: keyword:irs
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Restricting IRS debt collection practices is a regulatory policy limitation, incidental to spending.
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 (312)

Nay (78)

Not voting or present (44)

William Vollie Alexander Jr.Did not vote
John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Les AuCoinDid not vote
Druie Douglas Barnard Jr.Did not vote
Richard Walker BollingDid not vote
Jack Bascom BrooksDid not vote
Clarence J. Brown Jr.Did not vote
James Thomas BroyhillDid not vote
John Lowell BurtonDid not vote
James Colgate ClevelandDid not vote
William Ross CotterDid not vote
Philip M. CraneDid not vote
Eligio II de la GarzaDid not vote
Joseph Daniel EarlyDid not vote
Ronnie Gene FlippoDid not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezPresent
Margaret M. HecklerDid not vote
Jack English HightowerDid not vote
Jon Clifton HinsonDid not vote
Kenneth Lamar HollandDid not vote
Earl Dewitt HuttoDid not vote
Andrew Poysell IrelandDid not vote
Peter Houston KostmayerDid not vote
Norman Frederick LentDid not vote
Gene Andrew MaguireDid not vote
Mike McCormackPresent
Robert Cameron McEwenDid not vote
Koln Gunn McKayDid not vote
Richard M. NolanDid not vote
David Ross ObeyDid not vote
Joel McFee PritchardDid not vote
James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
James Henry QuillenDid not vote
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr.Did not vote
John Harbin RousselotDid not vote
Richard C. ShelbyDid not vote
Norman David ShumwayDid not vote
Ike SkeltonDid not vote
Gladys Noon SpellmanDid not vote
Edward John StackDid not vote
David Conner TreenDid not vote
John Patrick WilliamsPresent
Charles Herbert WilsonDid not vote
Edward Lawrence Winn Jr.Did not vote

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