House Roll Call 334, 101st Congress · November 9, 1989

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

185 yea · 197 nay38 not voting or present

Democrat154 yea · 66 nay

Republican37 yea · 136 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): Removing liability caps for simple negligence increases financial accountability for oil spills.
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 (192)

Nay (203)

Not voting or present (38)

Jack Bascom BrooksDid not vote
William S. BroomfieldDid not vote
George E. Brown Jr.Did not vote
John Wiley BryantDid not vote
Jim BunningDid not vote
Rodney Dennis ChandlerDid not vote
Jim CooperDid not vote
James Andrew CourterDid not vote
William Louis DickinsonDid not vote
Joseph Daniel EarlyDid not vote
William Donlon EdwardsDid not vote
Ronnie Gene FlippoDid not vote
James Joseph FlorioDid not vote
Harold Eugene FordDid not vote
Robert GarciaDid not vote
Joseph Matthew GaydosDid not vote
Willis David Gradison Jr.Did not vote
William Herbert Gray IIIDid not vote
Edgar Lanier JenkinsDid not vote
Harry A. Johnston IIDid not vote
Barbara Bailey KennellyDid not vote
Richard Henry LehmanDid not vote
William O. LipinskiDid not vote
Marilyn Laird LloydDid not vote
Thomas Andrew LukenDid not vote
Guy Victor MolinariDid not vote
Howard Curtis NielsonDid not vote
James R. OlinDid not vote
Charles B. RangelDid not vote
Robert A. RoeDid not vote
Daniel SchaeferDid not vote
Ike SkeltonDid not vote
Neal Edward SmithDid not vote
Olympia J. SnoweDid not vote
Charles W. StenholmDid not vote
Robert TorricelliDid not vote
Jerome Bob TraxlerDid not vote
Bruce F. VentoDid not vote

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