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Senate Roll Call 296, 114th Congress · November 3, 2015

A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the definition of "waters of the United States" under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Proceed

55 yea · 43 nayMotion to Proceed Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 40 nay
Republican52 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.J.Res. 22 ↗

A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the definition of "waters of the United States" under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

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 & EnergyA yea counts toward “Fossil fuel priority”

    model(0.90): Proceeding to disapprove the WOTUS environmental rule weakens water pollution protections.

    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 (55)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (2)

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