Senate Roll Call 38, 105th Congress · April 10, 1997
To clarify Congressional intent with respect to enactment of this Act in response to DOE's inability to meet the January 31, 1998 contractual deadline to start disposing of spent nuclear fuel. — (SENATE REJECTED BUMPERS AMENDMENT NO. 33 TO AMENDMENT NO. 26, TO CLARIFY CONGRESSIONAL INTENT WITH RESPECT TO ENACTMENT OF THIS ACT IN RESPONSE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S INABILITY TO MEET THE JANUARY 31, 1998 CONTRACTUAL DEADLINE TO START DISPOSING OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL.)
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 (0.90) Clarifying spent nuclear fuel disposal deadlines does not fit climate vs fossil fuel axis.
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 (24)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Richard J. Durbin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Robert Torricelli
- Ron Wyden
Nay (69)
- Spencer Abraham
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- 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
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- 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
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Charles S. Robb
- Pat Roberts
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- 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
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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