Senate Roll Call 593, 95th Congress · October 28, 1977
TO AMEND H.R. 5263 SO AS TO MAKE THE PROPOSED 40% TAX CREDIT FOR CONVERSION TO COAL NONREFUNDABLE TO CERTAIN BUSINESSES AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.
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(0.80): Restricting tax credits for converting to coal reduces subsidies for fossil fuel use.
Tagged by: keyword:coal
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
- TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”
model(0.90): Making a tax credit nonrefundable limits tax subsidies, raising revenue.
Tagged by: keyword:tax credit
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- TradeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Measure relates to coal conversion tax credits, 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 (34)
- James George Abourezk
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (50)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (16)
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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