Senate Roll Call 869, 104th Congress · July 31, 1996
To provide that EPA issue standards for protection of the public from releases of radioactive materials from a permanent repository, and for other purposes. — S.1936 BY CRAIG (R-ID) -- NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT OF 1996 (SENATE AGREED TO MURKOWSKI AMENDMENT NO. 5055, TO PROVIDE THAT EPA ISSUE STANDARDS FOR PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC FROM RELEASES OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS FROM A PERMANENT REPOSITORY, TO PROVIDE FOR THE SAFE TRANSPORTATION OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, TO EXEMPT THE NUCLEAR WASTE PROGRAM FROM CIVIL SERVICE LAWS, TO ELIMINATE THE TRAIN INSPECTION LIMITATION, TO CLARIFY THE SCOPE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TRAINING STANDARDS, TO ELIMINATE THE PERMANENT DISPOSAL RESEARCH PROVISIONS, TO ELIMINATE THE BUDGET PRIORITIES REGARDING CONSTRUCTION COSTS OF THE INTERIM STORAGE FACILITY, AND TO CLARIFY ROUTING.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1996
Policy area: Energy — 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 & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Nuclear waste disposal standards do not directly align with the fossil fuel vs climate action axis.
Tagged by: keyword:epa
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 (86)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Sheila Frahm
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Charles S. Robb
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Nay (12)
Not voting or present (2)
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Judd A. GreggDid not vote
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