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Senate Roll Call 19, 114th Congress · January 22, 2015

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that products derived from tar sands are crude oil for purposes of the Federal excise tax on petroleum.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

50 yea · 47 nayAmendment Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 0 nay
Republican5 yea · 47 nay
Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1

Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act

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.

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”

    model(0.85): Applying the petroleum excise tax to tar sands products generates additional federal tax revenue.

    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.

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