Senate Roll Call 164, 101st Congress · August 3, 1989
To provide for strict liability. — TO TABLE THE GORTON (R, WA) AMENDMENT TO S 686, OIL POLLUTION LIABILITY AND COMPENSATION ACT, TO GET RID OF ANY RESTRICTIONS ABOUT LIABILITY LIMITS AS THEY RELATE TO DAMAGES RELATING TO TO INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation Act of 1989
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 “Fossil fuel priority”
model(0.95): Tabling kills strict liability for oil spill damages, favoring fossil fuel interests.
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 (52)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- John B. Breaux
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Carl Levin
- James Albertus McClure
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (48)
- Brockman Adams
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Daniel Coats
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (0)
None
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