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Senate Roll Call 256, 96th Congress · September 6, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 4393 BY STRIKING SECTION 614 WHICH PROHIBITS IRS FROM CARRYING OUT PROPOSED REVENUE PROCEDURES REGARDING THE TAX EXEMPT STATUS OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 14

31 yea · 54 nay13 not voting or present
Democrat23 yea · 27 nay
Republican9 yea · 27 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.

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”

    model(0.85): Allowing IRS tax-exempt status revocations raises tax revenues.

    Tagged by: keyword:irs

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) This is a regulatory policy debate regarding private schools on a spending axis.

    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 (32)

Nay (55)

Not voting or present (13)

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