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Senate Roll Call 90, 112th Congress · June 16, 2011

To repeal the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

73 yea · 27 nayAmendment Agreed to
Democrat37 yea · 13 nay
Republican33 yea · 14 nay
Independent3 yea · 0 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 a tax credit raises federal tax revenue.

    Tagged by: keyword:tax credit

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.85): Repealing an ethanol tax credit reduces government 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.

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