Senate Roll Call 285, 95th Congress · July 14, 1977
TO AMEND S. 9, THE BILL TO ESTABLISH A POLICY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS IN THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF, BY OFFICIALLY MANDATING THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO CONTRACT FOR EXPLORATORY DRILLING WHEN MORE ACCURATE INFORMATION REGARDING THE RESOURCES OF THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF IS NEEDED FOR THE LEASING OF THE LANDS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978
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 “Fossil fuel priority”
model(0.85): Mandating federal exploration to facilitate offshore drilling prioritizes fossil fuel production.
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 (52)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- 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
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (47)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- 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
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (1)
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
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