Senate Roll Call 487, 96th Congress · December 15, 1979
TO AMEND H.R. 3919 BY PROVIDING A 20% ENERGY INVESTMENT CREDIT FOR CERTAIN COAL-FUELED BOILERS AND RELATED EQUIPMENT. (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.
- Climate & EnergyA yea counts toward “Fossil fuel priority”
model(0.95): Providing investment credits for coal-fueled equipment supports fossil fuels.
Tagged by: keyword:coal
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
- TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”
model(0.95): Providing a 20 percent energy investment tax credit reduces tax burdens.
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)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (49)
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (9)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Quentin Northrup BurdickDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
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