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House Roll Call 179, 97th Congress · August 4, 1981

TO PASS H.R. 4242, THE TAX INCENTIVE ACT OF 1981. (MOTION PASSED)

282 yea · 95 nay33 not voting or present
Democrat112 yea · 101 nay
Republican185 yea · 0 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4242 ↗

Economic Recovery Tax 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): Passing a tax incentive act reduces taxes.

    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 (298)

Nay (103)

Not voting or present (33)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.