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Senate Roll Call 584, 95th Congress · October 27, 1977

TO AMEND H.R. 5263 BY DELETING THE SECTION OF THE BILL THAT PROVIDES FOR A 20% REFUNDABLE TAX CREDIT TO INTERCITY BUS COMPANIES.

43 yea · 42 nay15 not voting or present
Democrat25 yea · 28 nay
Republican17 yea · 14 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 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.

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”

    model(0.90): Deleting a tax credit eliminates a tax expenditure, raising federal revenue.

    Tagged by: keyword:tax credit

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • TradeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Deleting a tax credit for bus companies is unrelated to 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 (43)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (15)

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