Senate Roll Call 462, 106th Congress · May 2, 2000
An original bill to provide for the storage of spent nuclear fuel pending completion of the nuclear waste repository, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On Overriding the Veto
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2000
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) Nuclear waste storage policy does not clearly map onto fossil fuel priority vs climate action.
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 (64)
- Spencer Abraham
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Reid Edwards
- Michael B. Enzi
- Peter G. Fitzgerald
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Tim Hutchinson
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Don Nickles
- Charles S. Robb
- Pat Roberts
- 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
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
Nay (35)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Richard H. Bryan
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Robert Torricelli
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (1)
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
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