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House Roll Call 115, 98th Congress · May 17, 1983

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 2973, A BILL REPEALING THE WITHHOLDING OF TAX FROM INTEREST AND DIVIDENDS. (MOTION PASSED;2/3 REQUIRED)

382 yea · 41 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat221 yea · 32 nay
Republican161 yea · 8 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2973 ↗

An act to promote economic revitalization and facilitate expansion of economic opportunities in the Caribbean Basin region, to provide for backup withholding of tax from interest and dividends, and for other purposes.

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(0.95): Repealing tax withholding lowers federal tax collections.

    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 (384)

Nay (41)

Not voting or present (7)

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