Senate Roll Call 157, 95th Congress · May 20, 1977
TO AMEND S. 7 BY FACILITATING THE PROCESS BY WHICH ANY OPERATOR, PERMITEE OR FEE OWNER, LESSOR OR LESSEE OF COAL DEPOSITS CAN INSTITUTE ACTIONS FOR DECLARATORY JUDGEMENT OR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AS APPROPRIATE TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE BILL.
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 “Fossil fuel priority”
model(0.85): Facilitating legal relief for coal operators advances fossil fuel industry interests.
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 (23)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Pete V. Domenici
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert William Packwood
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (49)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- 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
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (28)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Clifford Peter HansenDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Claiborne de Borda PellDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- Richard Bernard StoneDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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