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Key Votes
S Amdt 4419 to S Amdt 4387 - Energy Tax Credits Amendment - Key Vote
National Key Votes
Bob Menendez voted Yea (Amendment Vote) on this Amendment.
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Stages
Family
- HR 3221 - Housing Foreclosure Assistance Programs
- H Amdt 748 - Renewable Energy Standards
- S Amdt 4419 to S Amdt 4387 - Energy Tax Credits Amendment
- S Amdt 4983 - Housing Foreclosure Assistance Programs
Issues
Note
NOTE: THIS IS AN AMENDMENT TO A SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT. A SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT REPLACES THE ENTIRE TEXT OF A PIECE OF LEGISLATION WITH A NEW TEXT.
Stage Details
Amendment - Amendment Adopted (Senate) (88-8) - April 10, 2008(Key vote)
Title: Energy Tax Credits Amendment
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote to adopt an amendment that modifies and extends certain tax credits and deductions for renewable energy development.
- Extends tax credits until January 1, 2010, for the establishment of certain facilities that produce power by using wind energy, biomass energy, geothermal energy, solar energy, small irrigation power, landfill gas, trash combustion, refined coal production, and hydropower, while also expanding these tax credits so as to apply to certain new marine and hydrokinetic facilities.
- Extends certain tax credits for the development of solar energy until January 1, 2017 and for the development of fuel cell energy until December 31, 2017.
- Extends the expiration date of the "residential energy efficient property" credit (which provides a tax credit of 30 percent of expenditures on certain types of solar energy) from December 31, 2008, until December 31, 2009, and removes the $2,000 credit limit on solar electric energy.
- Extends the expiration date of the "new energy efficient home" credit (which applies to certain new homes that meet specific energy conservation criteria) from December 31, 2008, to December 31, 2010.
- Extends the "energy efficient commercial buildings" deduction until December 31, 2009, and increases the maximum deduction from $1.80 to $2.25 per square foot.
- Modifies energy efficient appliance credit levels and extends certain credits through the 2010 calendar year.
- Extends the authority to issue "clean renewable energy bonds" until December 31, 2009, and increases the limitation on the cumulative value of these bonds from $1.2 billion to $1.6 billion.
Sponsors
- John Eric Ensign (NV - R) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Wayne A. Allard (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Richard M. Burr (NC - R)
- Maria Cantwell (WA - D)
- Norm Coleman (MN - R) (Out Of Office)
- Susan M. Collins (ME - R)
- John Cornyn (TX - R)
- Larry E. Craig (ID - R) (Out Of Office)
- Elizabeth H. Dole (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Pete V. Domenici Jr. (NM - R) (Out Of Office)
- Michael B. 'Mike' Enzi (WY - R)
- Lindsey O. Graham (SC - R)
- Charles E. 'Chuck' Grassley (IA - R)
- Orrin G. Hatch (UT - R)
- Melquiades Rafael 'Mel' Martinez (FL - R) (Out Of Office)
- Lisa A. Murkowski (AK - R)
- Charles Patrick 'Pat' Roberts (KS - R)
- Arlen Specter (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Ted Stevens (AK - R) (Out Of Office)
- John E. Sununu (NH - R) (Out Of Office)
- John R. Thune (SD - R)
- John William Warner (VA - R) (Out Of Office)
