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House Roll Call 545, 105th Congress · October 30, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE GIBBONS AMENDMENT, DEBATED ON OCTOBER 29, THAT SOUGHT TO SPECIFY THAT THE GOVERNOR OF EACH STATE WITH NUCLEAR WASTE ROUTES SHALL CERTIFY THAT EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS EXIST AND CAN MANAGE ANY NUCLEAR ACCIDENT BEFORE TRANSPORTATION CAN BE IMPLEMENTED. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

112 yea · 312 nayFailed8 not voting or present
Democrat68 yea · 133 nay
Republican44 yea · 178 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1270 ↗

Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997

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 & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Concerns governor certification of emergency response teams, not climate action or fossil fuel policy.

    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 (112)

Nay (312)

Not voting or present (8)

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