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House Roll Call 427, 99th Congress · December 17, 1985

AN AMENDMENT TO H R 3838 TO PROVIDE RATE REDUCTIONS, STANDARD DEDUCTION INCREASES, AND PERSONAL EXEMPTION INCREASES. IT WOULD SHIFT $100 BILLION OF THE TAX BURDEN FROM INDIVIDUALS TO BUSINESSES. (MOTION FAILED)

133 yea · 294 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat4 yea · 236 nay
Republican128 yea · 57 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3838 ↗

Tax Reform Act of 1986

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): Rate reductions and deduction increases lower 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 (133)

Nay (295)

Not voting or present (6)

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