Senate Roll Call 186, 95th Congress · June 10, 1977
TO AMEND S. 252 BY ALLOWING THE INDIVIDUAL STATES AND COUNTIES TO SET THEIR OWN AIR QUALITY STANDARDS HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL ONES SET BY THE EPA.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Clean Air 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 & EnergyA yea counts toward “Climate action”
model(0.90): Allowing states to set stricter air quality standards promotes environmental protection.
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 (18)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (75)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- 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
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (7)
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
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