Senate Roll Call 580, 95th Congress · October 27, 1977
TO AMEND H.R. 5263 BY IMPOSING AN EXCISE TAX ON INDUSTRIAL AND UTILITY USE OF NATURAL GAS AND OIL BY NEW MAJOR FUEL-BURNING INSTALLATIONS AND BY EXISTING FACILITIES THAT WERE DESIGNED TO BURN COAL.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Energy Tax Act of 1978
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International 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.
- Climate & EnergyA yea counts toward “Climate action”
model(0.85): Taxing industrial oil and natural gas consumption disincentivizes fossil fuel consumption.
Tagged by: keyword:coal
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
- TradeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) An excise tax on fuel consumption is an energy policy issue, not trade policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance
Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (54)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (40)
- James George Abourezk
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Jennings Randolph
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
Not voting or present (6)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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