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Senate Roll Call 344, 114th Congress · January 21, 2016

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 Cloture Motion

52 yea · 40 nayCloture Motion Rejected8 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 38 nay
Republican49 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 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): Disapproving the WOTUS rule rolls back water pollution regulations, favoring fossil/industrial activities.

    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.

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.