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Senate Roll Call 518, 99th Congress · June 18, 1986

TO TABLE THE MITCHELL, ME) AMENDMENT TO HR 3838, TAX REFORM ACT, WHICH WOULD PROVIDE A THIRD RATE BRACKET FOR INDIVIDUAL TAXPAYERS AT 35 PERCENT, LOWER THE MINIMUM RATE TO 14 PERCENT AND MAINTAIN THE TOP CAPITAL GAINS RATE AT 27 PERCENT.

71 yea · 29 nay
Democrat22 yea · 26 nay
Republican49 yea · 3 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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) The amendment raises top tax rates while lowering lower bracket rates, moving taxes both ways.

    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 (71)

Nay (29)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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