Senate Roll Call 1172, 94th Congress · September 1, 1976
TO TABLE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER THE VOTE BY WHICH THE SENATE AGREED TO THE TOWER AMENDMENT (SEE R.C. 560) TO S. 2710.
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): Tabling reconsideration locks in the Tower amendment, which weakens environmental regulation.
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 (38)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- 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
- 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
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (38)
- James George Abourezk
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- John Varick Tunney
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (24)
- John Glenn Beall Jr.Did not vote
- James Lane BuckleyDid not vote
- Clifford Philip CaseDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- John Chester CulverDid not vote
- Hiram Leong FongDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Warren Grant MagnusonDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Walter Frederick MondaleDid not vote
- Joseph Manuel MontoyaDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Richard Schultz SchweikerDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- William Stuart SymingtonDid not vote
- Robert Taft Jr.Did not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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