Senate Roll Call 37, 105th Congress · April 10, 1997
To provide that the President shall not designate the Oak Ridge Reservation in the State of Tennessee as a site for construction of an interim storage facility. — (SENATE AGREED TO FRIST/THOMPSON AMENDMENT NO. 37 TO AMENDMENT 26, TO PROVIDE THAT THE PRESIDENT SHALL NOT DESIGNATE THE OAK RIDGE RESERVATION IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE AS A SITE FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN INTERIM STORAGE FACILITIY.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 (0.30) Nuclear waste storage siting does not clearly align with fossil fuel or climate action poles.
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 (60)
- Spencer Abraham
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Don Nickles
- Pat Roberts
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Ron Wyden
Nay (33)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Torricelli
Not voting or present (7)
- Barbara BoxerDid not vote
- Kent ConradDid not vote
- Byron L. DorganDid not vote
- Dianne FeinsteinDid not vote
- Rod GramsDid not vote
- Tim HutchinsonDid not vote
- Paul David WellstoneDid not vote
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