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Senate Roll Call 353, 114th Congress · February 2, 2016

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to phase out tax preferences for fossil fuels on the same schedule as the phase out of the tax credits for wind facilities.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

45 yea · 50 nayAmendment Rejected5 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 2 nay
Republican3 yea · 47 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2012 ↗

Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016

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(0.95): Phasing out tax preferences for fossil fuels increases 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.

Yea (45)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (5)

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