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House Roll Call 263, 95th Congress · May 25, 1977

TO AGREE TO AN AMENDMENT, AS MODIFIED BY THE EMERY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT, TO H.R. 6161. THE BREAUX AMENDMENT ALLOWS STATES TO GRANT A 5% VARIANCE OF POLLUTION LEVELS IN CLASS I AND CLASS II AREAS FOR UP TO 18 DAYS A YEAR.

237 yea · 172 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat125 yea · 152 nay
Republican118 yea · 23 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6161 ↗

Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977

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(0.90): Allows states to grant variances from pollution limits, weakening clean air standards.

    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 (243)

Nay (178)

Not voting or present (12)

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