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House Roll Call 915, 100th Congress · October 6, 1988

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS HR 2953, GAS PIPELINE TAXATION, TO AMEND TITLE 28 OF THE U.S. CODE TO ALLOW THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS TO PROHIBIT OR WITHHOLD SOME STATE AD VALOREM PROPERTY TAXES ON INTERSTATE GAS TRANSMISSION PROPERTY. MOTION FAILED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT NOT VOTING IN FAVOR.

219 yea · 197 nay15 not voting or present
Democrat120 yea · 119 nay
Republican97 yea · 77 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2953

A bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to permit the district courts of the United States to enjoin, suspend, or restrain certain State ad valorem property taxes on interstate gas transmission property, 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(0.85): Prohibiting state property taxes on gas transmission pipelines reduces tax burdens.

    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 (219)

Nay (197)

Not voting or present (15)

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