Senate Roll Call 155, 95th Congress · May 20, 1977
TO AMEND S. 7 BY REQUIRING THAT THE STATES MEET THE FEDERAL RECLAMATION STANDARDS WITH REGARD TO PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, WATER DIMUNITION AND POLLUTION, BUT NOT WITH RESPECT TO LAND APPEARANCE AND CONTOUR.
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.
- Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) The measure concerns mine land reclamation standards, not health care coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:public health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (37)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (49)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (14)
- 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
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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