Senate Roll Call 257, 96th Congress · September 6, 1979
TO AMEND H.R. 4393 BY PLACING A ONE YEAR MORATORIUM ON THE ABILITY OF THE IRS TO ESTABLISH NEW PROCEDURES REGARDING THE TERMINATION OF THE TAX EXEMPT STATUS OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS. SEE NOTE(S) 14
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 “Cut taxes”
model(0.85): Placing a moratorium on revoking tax-exempt status preserves tax breaks.
Tagged by: keyword:irs
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A moratorium on IRS private school rules is a regulatory issue, not 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 (48)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (44)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Alan Cranston
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (8)
- John Chester CulverDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Roger William JepsenDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Warren Grant MagnusonDid not vote
- Claiborne de Borda PellDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
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