Senate Roll Call 448, 93rd Congress · October 8, 1973
TO AMEND S. 425, A BILL PROVIDING FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR AND THE STATES, WITH RESPECT TO THE REGULATION OF SURFACE MINING OPERATIONS, BY PREVENTING COAL SURFACE MINING ON FEDERAL LANDS WHERE THE U.S. DOES NOT OWN THE SURFACE BUT HAS ONLY THE RESERVE MINERAL INTERESTS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Surface Mining 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 “Climate action”
model(0.95): Prevents coal surface mining on certain federal lands, advancing climate and environmental protection.
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 (54)
- James George Abourezk
- George David Aiken
- James Browning Allen
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Marlow Webster Cook
- James William Fulbright
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- John Varick Tunney
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (33)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Alan Harvey Bible
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Peter Hoyt Dominick
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Russell Billiu Long
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank Edward Moss
- James Blackwood Pearson
- William Bart Saxbe
- William Lloyd Scott
- Ted F. Stevens
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
Not voting or present (13)
- Wallace Foster BennettDid not vote
- Quentin Northrup BurdickDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Norris H. CottonDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Joseph Manuel MontoyaDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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