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House Roll Call 731, 95th Congress · February 2, 1978

TO AGREE TO AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE MURPHY (NY) AMENDMENT (SEE RC 31) TO H.R. 1614. THE WHALEN AMENDMENT WOULD DELETE THE SECTION OF THE BILL THAT REQUIRES DOCUMENTATION, REGISTRY AND EMPLOYMENT OF U.S. NATIONALS IN FACILITIES AND VESSELS USED FOR OCS OPERATIONS.

118 yea · 280 nay33 not voting or present
Democrat65 yea · 198 nay
Republican51 yea · 82 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1614 ↗

Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments

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 & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Deleting U.S. nationality requirements for offshore vessel crews concerns labor/maritime policy, not climate policy.

    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 (118)

Nay (281)

Not voting or present (33)

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