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Senate Roll Call 167, 101st Congress · August 3, 1989

To provide for total removal costs plus $75,000,000. — TO TABLE THE WILSON (R, CA) AMENDMENT TO S 686, OIL POLLUTION LIABILITY AND COMPENSATION ACT, TO REMOVE THE CAP ON CLEANUP COSTS FOR SPILLS OFF THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

34 yea · 66 nayMotion to Table Failed
Democrat24 yea · 30 nay
Republican10 yea · 34 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 686

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 removing caps on oil spill cleanup costs.

    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 (34)

Nay (66)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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