Senate Roll Call 1171, 94th Congress · September 1, 1976
TO AMEND S. 2710, WATER POLLUTION CONTROL AMENDMENTS, BY GIVING THE CORPS OF ARMY ENGINEERS PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY TO ISSUE PERMITS FOR DREDGE OR FILL MATERIALS IN AREAS ADJACENT TO NAVIGABLE WATERS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An original bill to extend certain authorizations under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended.
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(0.85): Transferring permit authority to the Army Corps of Engineers weakens environmental regulation of wetlands.
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)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- John Little McClellan
- Gale William McGee
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Frank Edward Moss
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (44)
- James George Abourezk
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Clifford Philip Case
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- George Stanley McGovern
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- John Varick Tunney
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (13)
- John Glenn Beall Jr.Did not vote
- James Lane BuckleyDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Hiram Leong FongDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Warren Grant MagnusonDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- Walter Frederick MondaleDid not vote
- Joseph Manuel MontoyaDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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