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House Roll Call 331, 101st Congress · November 8, 1989

TO AMEND HR 1465, OIL POLLUTION LIMITS, TO CHANGE THE LIABILITY STANDARDS SO THAT LIABILITY LIMITS WOULD NOT APPLY TO SPILLS DUE TO NEGLIGENCE AS OPPOSED TO GROSS NEGLIGENCE.

213 yea · 206 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat172 yea · 68 nay
Republican42 yea · 137 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1465 ↗

Oil Pollution Act of 1990

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): Holding polluters liable for simple negligence strengthens environmental accountability.

    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 (215)

Nay (206)

Not voting or present (12)

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