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Senate Roll Call 463, 96th Congress · December 7, 1979

TO AGREE TO A SUBSTITUTE FOR DIVISION I OF ARMSTRONG AMENDMENT TO H.R. 3919, REQUIRING THE PRESIDENT TO GIVE NOTICE OF HIS INTENT WHEN MAKING ANY ADJUSTMENT UNDER THE EMERGENCY PETROLEUM ALLOCATION ACT WHICH HAS THE EFFECT OF SIGNIFICANTLY SLOWING THE RATE AT WHICH PRICE CONTROLS ON CRUDE OIL ARE BEING PHASED OUT. THE ARMSTRONG AMENDMENT TERMINATES THE WINDFALL PROFIT TAX IF THE PRESIDENT DISCONTINUES DECONTROL OF CRUDE OIL PRICES OR REIMPOSES PRICE CONTROLS ON CRUDE OIL. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 22

42 yea · 40 nay16 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 6 nay
Republican1 yea · 35 nay
Independent0 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 “Cut taxes”

    model(0.90): Conditioning or terminating the windfall profit tax reduces tax burden.

    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 (42)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (16)

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