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Senate Roll Call 477, 110th Congress · February 28, 2008

Moving the United States toward greater energy independence and security, developing innovative new technologies, reducing carbon emissions, creating green jobs, protecting consumers, increasing clean renewable energy production, and modernizing our energy infrastructure, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the production of renewable energy and energy conservation.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

48 yea · 46 nayCloture Motion Rejected6 not voting or present
Democrat45 yea · 2 nay
Republican1 yea · 44 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3221

Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008

Policy area: Energy — 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.

  • Climate & EnergyA yea counts toward “Climate action”

    model(0.95): Advancing legislation promoting renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions aligns with climate action.

    Tagged by: keyword:renewable energy

    Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

    model(0.95): Advancing tax incentives lowers tax obligations and cuts revenues.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    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 (48)

Nay (46)

Not voting or present (6)

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