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Senate Roll Call 491, 96th Congress · December 17, 1979

TO TABLE BENTSEN SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 3919 (SEE RC 493). (MOTION FAILED) (CONTINUED) SEE NOTE(S) 22

41 yea · 57 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat3 yea · 54 nay
Republican38 yea · 2 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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Text does not describe the policy content of the Bentsen substitute amendment.

    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 (41)

Nay (57)

Not voting or present (2)

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