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House Roll Call 280, 96th Congress · June 28, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 3919 BY INCREASING THE QUANTITY OF LOWER TIER OIL THAT WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE WINDFALL PROFITS TAX BY DECREASING THE QUANTITY OF LOWER TIER OIL THAT WOULD BE EXEMPTED FROM TIER ONE EACH MONTH FROM 1.50 TO 1.25 PERCENT. (MOTION FAILED)

172 yea · 241 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat166 yea · 91 nay
Republican8 yea · 154 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3919 ↗

Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980

Policy area: Taxation — 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): Increasing the amount of oil subject to windfall profits tax raises revenue.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (176)

Nay (246)

Not voting or present (12)

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