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Senate Roll Call 598, 95th Congress · October 29, 1977

TO TABLE THE PERCY AMENDMENT TO H.R. 5263, AN AMENDMENT THAT REPEALS THE PERSONAL INCOME TAX DEDUCTION FOR STATE AND LOCAL GASOLINE TAXES.

65 yea · 12 nay21 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 8 nay
Republican24 yea · 4 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 “Cut taxes”

    model(0.90): Tabling kills a proposal to repeal a tax deduction, preserving tax cuts.

    Tagged by: keyword:income tax

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • TradeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Measure relates to gasoline tax deductions, 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 (67)

Nay (12)

Not voting or present (21)

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