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House Roll Call 817, 96th Congress · March 26, 1980

TO PASS H.R. 5741, AMENDING THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE TO PROVIDE THAT THE INTEREST ON MORTGAGE SUBSIDY BONDS WILL NOT BE EXEMPT FROM FEDERAL INCOME TAX AND TO EXEMPT INTEREST ON CERTAIN SAVINGS FROM FEDERAL INCOME TAX. (MOTION PASSED)

238 yea · 178 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat178 yea · 79 nay
Republican60 yea · 100 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5741 ↗

Mortgage Subsidy Bond Tax Act of 1979

Policy area: Taxation — 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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) The bill both eliminates tax exemptions on bonds and creates tax exemptions on savings.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

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

Yea (240)

Nay (180)

Not voting or present (11)

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