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Senate Roll Call 253, 96th Congress · September 5, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 4393, TREASURY/POSTAL SERVICE APPROPRIATIONS, BY STRIKING THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT DESIGNED TO WITHHOLD TAX REFUNDS FROM FORMER STUDENTS WHO HAVE DEFAULTED ON THEIR GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED LOANS. (MOTION PASSED)

52 yea · 38 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat17 yea · 37 nay
Republican37 yea · 1 nay
Independent0 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Striking student loan default refund withholding reduces government collections.

    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 (54)

Nay (39)

Not voting or present (7)

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