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Senate Roll Call 71, 94th Congress · March 18, 1975

TO AMEND SEN. BENTSEN'S AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2166 BY REDUCING FROM 3000 BBLS OF OIL AND 18 MILLION CUBIC FEET OF NATURAL GAS TO 1000 BBLS OF OIL AND 6 MILLION CU. FT THE AMOUNT OF DAILY PRODUCTION BY INDEPENDENT OIL COMPANIES TO BE EXEMPT FROM OIL DEPLETION ALLOWANCE.

41 yea · 49 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat34 yea · 22 nay
Republican9 yea · 26 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2166

Tax Reduction Act of 1975

Policy area: Depletion allowances — 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): Shrinks the production amount exempt from depletion tax, thereby raising tax revenue.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Depletion allowances

    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 (43)

Nay (49)

Not voting or present (7)

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