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Senate Roll Call 42, 105th Congress · April 15, 1997

A bill to amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. — (SENATE PASSED S. 104, TO AMEND THE NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT OF 1982.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

65 yea · 34 nayBill Passed1 not voting or present
Democrat13 yea · 31 nay
Republican51 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 104 ↗

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 (0.80) Nuclear waste policy does not cleanly map onto the fossil fuel versus climate action scale.

    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 (65)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (1)

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