Senate Roll Call 292, 95th Congress · July 15, 1977
TO AMEND S. 9 BY ALLOWING THE INTERIOR SECRETARY TO PUT UP TO 75% OF THE FIXED CASH BONUS FUNDS RECEIVED BY ANY ONE BIDDER INTO AN ESCROW ACCOUNT THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY FINANCE THE LESSEE'S DRILLING COST.
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): Subsidizes offshore oil drilling by placing bonus funds into escrow for drilling costs.
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 (27)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (54)
- James George Abourezk
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (19)
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Robert Burren MorganDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
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