House Roll Call 546, 105th Congress · October 30, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE ENSIGN AMENDMENT, DEBATED ON OCTOBER 29, THAT SOUGHT TO REQUIRE THAT BEFORE ANY SHIPMENTS OCCUR, CONGRESS MUST HAVE APPROPRIATED FUNDS TO ENSURE ADEQUATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS ALONG THE TRANSPORTATION ROUTE. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

118 yea · 305 nayFailed9 not voting or present

Democrat82 yea · 120 nay

Republican36 yea · 184 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) Requires funding for emergency response teams along transport routes, not addressing climate 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 (118)

Nay (305)

Not voting or present (9)

Roscoe G. BartlettDid not vote
Barbara L. CubinDid not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezDid not vote
Sam JohnsonDid not vote
David M. McIntoshDid not vote
Steven Harvey SchiffDid not vote
William J. TauzinDid not vote
David J. Weldon Jr.Did not vote
W. Curtis WeldonDid not vote

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