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Senate Roll Call 582, 95th Congress · October 27, 1977

TO AMEND H.R. 5263 BY DELETING THE SECTION STATING THAT NO NEW ENERGY TAXES SHALL BE PUT INTO EFFECT UNLESS THEY ARE ACCOMPANIED BY A SERIES OF TAX INCENTIVES FOR THE PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION OF ENERGY AND FOR CONVERSION TO ALTERNATE FUELS.

38 yea · 56 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat33 yea · 27 nay
Republican6 yea · 29 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5263

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.

  • TradeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Rules on energy tax incentives do not directly address 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 (39)

Nay (57)

Not voting or present (4)

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