Senate Roll Call 812, 93rd Congress · June 4, 1974
TO AMEND S.2846, TO ASSURE AN ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF CHLORINE NECESSARY FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT, BY PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE LANGUAGE FOR THE DEFINITION OF "PURPOSES NECESSARY TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC HEALTH" AS IT RELATES TO THE USE OF CHLORINE IN TREATING DRINKING AND WASTE WATER.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Emergency Chlorine Allocation 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.
- Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Water treatment chemicals do not pertain to health care coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:public health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Climate & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Chlorine supply for water treatment is unrelated to climate or fossil fuels.
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 (43)
- George David Aiken
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Clifford Philip Case
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Norris H. Cotton
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Peter Hoyt Dominick
- James Oliver Eastland
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Robert Taft Jr.
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (38)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Alan Harvey Bible
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- George Stanley McGovern
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (20)
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.Did not vote
- James William FulbrightDid not vote
- Rupert Vance HartkeDid not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Gale William McGeeDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- Frank Edward MossDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- William Stuart SymingtonDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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