Senate Roll Call 153, 95th Congress · May 20, 1977
TO AMEND S. 7 BY REQUIRING THAT THE STATES USE THE "ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND" FOR THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF FUNDING RECLAMATIONS OF ORPHANED LANDS, ABANDONED COAL LANDS AND OTHER QUALIFYING LANDS, AND THAT SECONDARY USE OF THE FUND BE THEN RESTRICTED.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources — 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(0.80): Restricting funds for mine reclamation prioritizes environmental restoration.
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 (48)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (42)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Robert Paul Griffin
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (10)
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
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