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Senate Roll Call 600, 101st Congress · October 18, 1990

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reinstate the windfall profit tax on domestic crude oil. — TO WAIVE PROVISIONS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF METZENBAUM AMENDMENT NO. 3040 TO S 3209, OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILIATION ACT OF 1990, TO REINSTATE THE WINDFALL PROFIT TAX ON DOMESTIC CRUDE OIL. (MOTION FAILED; THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY NOT VOTING IN FAVOR.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

33 yea · 67 nayMotion Rejected
Democrat25 yea · 29 nay
Republican6 yea · 38 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 3209

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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 “Raise revenue”

    model(0.90): Advancing a vote to reinstate the windfall profit tax moves toward raising revenue.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.85): Reinstating a tax raises revenue to reduce the deficit, supporting fiscal restraint.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (33)

Nay (67)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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