House Roll Call 817, 93rd Congress · July 18, 1974

TO AMEND TITLE I OF H.R. 11500 SO AS TO MAKE IT THE PURPOSE OF THE BILL TO "PROVIDE" RATHER THAN ASSURE A NATIONWIDE EFFORT TO REGULATE SURFACE COAL MINING.

146 yea · 250 nay37 not voting or present

Democrat43 yea · 175 nay

Republican103 yea · 75 nay

Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 11500 ↗

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

Policy area: Mines and mineral resources — 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(0.75): Changing statutory language from assure to provide weakens environmental regulation of surface coal mining.
Tagged by: keyword:coal
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 (146)

Nay (251)

Not voting or present (37)

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