Senate Roll Call 430, 96th Congress · November 27, 1979
TO TABLE MCGOVERN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 3919 THAT RESERVED $1 BILLION FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE NATION'S FREIGHT AND PASSENGER RAILROAD SYSTEMS. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 22
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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.
- TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Reserving tax revenue for railroad spending is an expenditure allocation, not a tax change.
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 (28)
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Russell Billiu Long
- James Albertus McClure
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Robert William Packwood
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (67)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Roger William JepsenDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
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