House Roll Call 535, 95th Congress · September 21, 1977

TO AMEND H.R. 6796 BY AUTHORIZING $28 MILLION FOR THE PURCHASE OF FOUR MEGAWATTS OF SOLAR ENERGY CELLS AND $10 MILLION FOR THE TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS. THE INTENT OF THIS AMENDMENT IS TO STIMULATE MASS PRODUCTION AND LOWER PRICES OF SOLAR ENERGY EQUIPMENT.

227 yea · 179 nay28 not voting or present

Democrat168 yea · 98 nay

Republican56 yea · 81 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6796 ↗

A bill to authorize appropriations to the Energy Research and Development Administration in accordance with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, section 305 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, and section 16 of the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974.

Policy area: Energy — 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 “Climate action”
model(0.95): Authorizing funds for solar energy and photovoltaic cells advances clean energy development.
Tagged by: keyword:solar
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 (227)

Nay (179)

Not voting or present (28)

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