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.
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.
- 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)
- James George Abourezk
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (42)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (15)
- Dale BumpersPresent
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Paul S. SarbanesDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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