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House Roll Call 876, 100th Congress · October 4, 1988

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS HR 5430, OCEAN DUMPING FEES, TO AMEND THE MARINE PROTECTION, RESEARCH AND SANCTUARIES ACT OF 1972 TO CREATE SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS TO DISCOURAGE OCEAN DUMPING OF SEWAGE SLUDGE AND INDUSTRIAL WASTE. MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.

417 yea · 0 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat240 yea · 0 nay
Republican176 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5430

A bill to amend the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to establish special fees for the ocean dumping of sewage sludge and industrial waste, and for other purpose.

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 & EnergyA yea counts toward “Climate action”

    model(0.90): Imposes fees to discourage ocean dumping of sewage and industrial waste.

    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 (419)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (12)

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