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Senate Roll Call 131, 105th Congress · June 26, 1997

To repeal the depletion allowance available to certain hardrock mining companies. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF BUMPERS AMENDMENT NO. 518, TO REPEAL THE DEPLETION ALLOWANCE AVAILABLE TO CERTAIN HARDROCK MINING COMPANIES.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

36 yea · 63 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat28 yea · 17 nay
Republican6 yea · 46 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 949 ↗

Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1997

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 “Raise revenue”

    model(0.95): Repealing a tax depletion allowance eliminates a tax benefit, thereby raising tax revenue.

    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 (36)

Nay (63)

Not voting or present (1)

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