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House Roll Call 165, 97th Congress · July 29, 1981

TO AGREE TO A SUBSTITUTE TO H.R. 4242, TAX INCENTIVE ACT OF 1981, THAT PROVIDES FOR ALMOST $200 BILLION IN INDIVIDUAL TAX CUTS TARGETED TO TAXPAYERS UNDER $50,000 AND $9.5 BILLION IN BUSINESS TAX INCENTIVES AND REPEALS THE 22% OIL AND GAS DEPLETION ALLOWANCE. (MOTION FAILED)

144 yea · 288 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat138 yea · 94 nay
Republican4 yea · 193 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4269 ↗

Tax Reduction and Reform Act of 1981

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.

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

    model(0.90): The substitute provides for substantial tax cuts.

    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 (144)

Nay (288)

Not voting or present (2)

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