Senate Roll Call 595, 95th Congress · October 28, 1977
TO TABLE THE ALLEN AMENDMENT TO THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT (SEE RC 594) TO H.R. 5263. THE ALLEN AMENDMENT REDUCES THE REFUNDABLE TAX CREDIT FOR ENERGY CONVERSION FROM 40% TO 20%.
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 “Cut taxes”
model(0.90): Tabling kills an amendment reducing energy conversion tax credits, preserving larger tax cuts.
Tagged by: keyword:tax credit
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- TradeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Measure relates to energy 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 (41)
- James George Abourezk
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Robert Burren Morgan
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (36)
- James Browning Allen
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- John Anthony Durkin
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (23)
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.Did 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
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Paul S. SarbanesDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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