Senate Roll Call 876, 104th Congress · August 2, 1996
A bill to reauthorize and amend title XIV of the Public Health Service Act (commonly known as the "Safe Drinking Water Act"), and for other purposes. — S.1316 BY KEMPTHORNE (R-ID) -- SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1996 (PUB. L. 104-182, APPROVED 8/06/96) (SENATE AGREED TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. 1316, TO AUTHORIZE AND AMEND TITLE XIV OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT (COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT). .)
Question before the chamber: On the Conference Report
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996
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.
- Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Safe drinking water legislation affects environmental and water quality, not health insurance coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:public health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Climate & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Safe drinking water standards regulate public health and water systems, not climate action or fossil fuels.
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 (98)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- John Ashcroft
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- 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
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- 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
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- 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 (0)
None
Not voting or present (2)
- Patty MurrayDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
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