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House Roll Call 334, 100th Congress · October 13, 1987

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS HR 940, PLASTIC POLLUTION CONTROL, A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION OF THE DISPOSAL OF PLASTIC AND OTHER MATERIALS AT SEA. MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.

386 yea · 14 nay30 not voting or present
Democrat227 yea · 0 nay
Republican160 yea · 14 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 940

Marine Plastic Pollution Prevention Act of 1987

Policy area: Environmental Protection — 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 & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Regulating ocean plastic pollution is general environmental protection, not directly on the climate/energy axis.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Environmental Protection

    Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (389)

Nay (14)

Not voting or present (30)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.