Assembly

State Assembly Speaker Vincent Preto (D-Hudson) looks at the Assembly's vote board at the Statehouse in Trenton on Monday.

(Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

TRENTON -- New Jerseyans could soon see New Jersey's gas tax rise and sales tax drop under a surprise plan the state Assembly approved Monday.

The lower house of the state Legislature voted 53-23 on the plan, which would hike the gas tax by 23 cents a gallon to replenish the nearly broke Transportation Trust Fund in exchange for the sales tax dropping from 7 percent to 6 percent by 2018.

Assembly Speaker Vincent Preto (D-Hudson), who crafted the deal with Gov. Chris Christie, said lowering the sales tax will affect all of the Garden State's 9 million residents and put "money in the pockets of the working poor."

But Assembly Transportation Committee Chair John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) opposed the plan, saying it would blow a hole of more than $1 billion in the state budget "at a time when we're already having trouble paying the bills that we all recognize we have not been able to pay."

The state Senate still needs to pass the proposal and Christie needs to sign it for it to take effect.

Here is a look at how each member of the Assembly voted:

Bob Andrzejczak (D-Cape May): No

Robert Auth (R-Bergen): No

Arthur Barclay (D-Camden): Yes

Dan Benson (D-Mercer): Yes

Jon Bramnick (R-Union): Yes

Chris A. Brown (R-Atlantic): Yes

Anthony M. Bucco (R-Morris): No

John Burzichelli (D-Gloucester): Yes

Ralph Caputo (D-Essex): Yes

Marlene Caride (D-Bergen): Yes

Michael Patrick Carroll (R-Morris): No

Annette Chaparro (D-Hudson): Yes

Nicholas Chiaravalloti (D-Hudson): Yes

Jack Ciattarelli (R-Somerset): No

Rob Clifton (R-Monmouth): Yes

Herb Conaway (D-Burlingon): Yes

Craig Coughlin (D-Middlesex): Yes

Ronald Dancer (R-Ocean): No

Joe Danielsen (D-Somerset): Yes

Wayne DeAngelo (D-Mercer): Yes

BettyLou DeCroce (R-Morris): Yes

John DiMaio (R-Warren): No

Joann Downey (D-Monmouth): No

Joseph Egan (D-Middlesex): Yes

Tim Eustace (D-Bergen): Yes

Thomas Giblin (D-Essex): Ye

DiAnne Gove (R-Ocean): No

Jerry Green (D-Union): Yes

Louis Greenwald (D-Camden): Yes

Reed Gusciora (D-Mercer): Yes

Amy Handlin (R-Monmouth): No

Jamel Holley (D-Union): Yes

Eric Houghtaling (D-Monmouth): No

Joe Howarth (R-Burlington): Yes

Mila Jasey (D-Essex): Yes

Angelica Jimenez (D-Hudson): Yes

Gordon Johnson (D-Bergen): Yes

Patricia Egan Jones (D-Camden): Yes

Robert Karabinchak (D-Middlesex): Yes

Sean Kean (R-Monmouth): Yes

James Kennedy (D-Union): Yes

Joseph Lagana (D-Bergen):Yes

Pamela R. Lampitt (D-Camden): Yes

R. Bruce Land (D-Cape May): No

Vincent Mazzeo (D-Atlantic): No

Gregory McGuckin (R-Ocean): No

John McKeon (D-Essex): Yes

Angela McKnight (D-Hudson): Yes

Paul Moriarty (D-Gloucester): Yes

Gabriela Mosquera (D-Camden): Yes

Raj Mukherji (D-Hudson): Yes

Nancy Munoz (R-Union): Yes

Elizabeth Maher Muoio (D-Mercer): Yes

Sheila Oliver (D-Essex): Yes

Declan O'Scanlon (R-Monmouth): Didn't vote

Erik Peterson (R-Hunterdon): No

Gail Phoebus (R-Sussex): No

Nancy Pinkin (D-Middlesex): Yes

Eliana Pintor Marin (D-Essex): Yes

Vincent Prieto (D-Hudson): Yes

Annette Quijano (D-Hudson): Yes

David Rible (R-Monmouth): Yes

Maria Rodriguez-Gregg (R-Burlington): Yes

Scott Rumana (R-Passaic): Yes

Brian Rumpf (R-Ocean): Didn't vote

David Russo (R-Bergen): No

Gary Schaer (D-Passaic): Yes

Holly Schepisi (R-Bergen): No

Troy Singleton (D-Burlington): Yes

Parker Space (R-Sussex): No

L. Grace Spencer (D-Essex): Yes

Shavonda Sumter (D-Passaic): Yes

Adam Taliaferro (D-Salem): Didn't vote

Cleopatra Tucker (D-Essex): Didn't vote

Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D-Bergen): Yes

Jay Webber (R-Morris): No

Benjie Wimberly (D-Passaic): Yes

John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex): No

David Wolfe (R-Ocean): No

Andrew Zwicker (D-Mercer): No

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