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Senate Roll Call 89, 112th Congress · June 14, 2011

To repeal the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

40 yea · 59 nayCloture Motion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat4 yea · 45 nay
Republican34 yea · 13 nay
Independent2 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 782 ↗

Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011

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): Repealing an excise tax credit increases federal tax revenue.

    Tagged by: keyword:tax credit

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.85): Eliminating a tax credit subsidy reduces federal tax expenditures.

    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 (40)

Nay (59)

Not voting or present (1)

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