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House Roll Call 1181, 95th Congress · July 14, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 12163 BY AUTHORIZING $75 MILLION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A COAL LIQUEFACTION DEMONSTRATION PLANT.

165 yea · 132 nay132 not voting or present
Democrat129 yea · 72 nay
Republican35 yea · 62 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12163

A bill to authorize appropriations to the Department of Energy in accordance with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, section 305 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, section 16 of the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974, and section 660 of the Department of Energy Reorganization Act, for energy research and development, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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(0.95): Authorizes funding for a coal plant, prioritizing fossil fuels over climate action.

    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 (166)

Nay (134)

Not voting or present (132)

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