Senate Roll Call 347, 95th Congress · September 7, 1977
TO AMEND S. 977, A BILL ENCOURAGING THE INCREASED USE OF COAL IN ELECTRIC GENERATING FACILITIES AND MAJOR INSTALLATIONS. THE DURKIN AMENDMENT AUTHORIZES AN ADDITIONAL $100 MILLION FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF RAILWAYS USED TO TRANSPORT COAL.
60 yea · 21 nay13 not voting or present
Democrat52 yea · 1 nay
Republican13 yea · 20 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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(0.90): Subsidizing coal transport infrastructure prioritizes fossil fuel use.
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 (65)
- James Browning Allen
- 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
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Anthony Durkin
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (22)
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Claggett Danforth
- Pete V. Domenici
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- James Blackwood Pearson
- William Proxmire
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (13)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Carl Thomas CurtisDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
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