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House Roll Call 302, 96th Congress · July 13, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 4393, THE TREASURY-POSTAL SERVICE APPROPRIATIONS, BY PROHIBITING USE OF FUNDS TO FORMULATE OR CARRY OUT ANY RULE OR POLICY WHICH WOULD CAUSE THE LOSS OF TAX-EXEMPT STATUS TO PRIVATE, OR CHURCH OPERATED SCHOOLS UNLESS IN EFFECT PRIOR TO AUGUST 22, 1978. (MOTION PASSED)

297 yea · 63 nay51 not voting or present
Democrat167 yea · 71 nay
Republican143 yea · 0 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4393

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations 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.

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Blocking an IRS rule on private school tax exemptions is a policy fight where 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 (310)

Nay (73)

Not voting or present (51)

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