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Senate Roll Call 737, 97th Congress · July 22, 1982

TO AMEND H.R. 4961 TO PLACE A LIMITED TIME ON THE INCREASE IN THE EXCISE TAX ON CIGARETTES FROM 8 TO 16 CENTS A PACK. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 35

60 yea · 37 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat26 yea · 18 nay
Republican33 yea · 20 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4961 ↗

Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982

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): Placing a time limit on an excise tax increase reduces total revenues collected.

    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 (60)

Nay (38)

Not voting or present (2)

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