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Senate Roll Call 339, 109th Congress · November 17, 2005

To impose a temporary windfall profits tax on crude oil and to use the proceeds of the tax collected to fund programs under the Low-Income Energy Assistance Act of 1981 through a trust fund.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

50 yea · 48 nayMotion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat40 yea · 3 nay
Republican8 yea · 45 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2020 ↗

Tax Relief Act of 2005

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): Imposing a windfall profits tax on crude oil raises 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 (50)

Nay (48)

Not voting or present (2)

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