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Senate Roll Call 364, 101st Congress · April 3, 1990

To allow communities to decide whether or not plants exceeding the emission limitations imposed by subsection 112 (f) of the Clean Air Act do, in fact, impose upon the community an "unacceptable" risk. — TO TABLE THE SYMMS (R, ID) AMENDMENT TO S 1630, CLEAN AIR REAUTHORIZATION ACT, TO REQUIRE A COMMUNITY REFERENDUM BEFORE ANY PLANT COULD BE REQUIRED TO CLOSE BECAUSE OF PERMITS, FEES OR FINES IN CONNECTION WITH HEALTH-RISK STANDARDS FOR EMISSION FROM MAJOR SOURCES OF AIR TOXICS.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

82 yea · 15 nayMotion to Table Agreed to3 not voting or present
Democrat52 yea · 1 nay
Republican28 yea · 14 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1630 ↗

Clean Air Act Amendments 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(0.85): Tabling kills a referendum loophole that would delay closing major polluting plants.

    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 (82)

Nay (15)

Not voting or present (3)

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