Senate Roll Call 352, 95th Congress · September 8, 1977
TO TABLE THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT TO S. 977, THE BILL REQUIRING INCREASED USE OF COAL BY THE MAJOR UTILITY INDUSTRIES. THE MODIFIED KENNEDY AMENDMENT PROHIBITS MAJOR OIL AND GAS PRODUCERS FROM AQUIRING, IN MOST CASES, ADDITIONAL COAL AND URANIUM ASSETS.
62 yea · 30 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat29 yea · 31 nay
Republican34 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 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(0.85): Tabling restrictions on oil and gas firms acquiring coal assets favors fossil fuel 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 (64)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- John Little McClellan
- John Melcher
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (32)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
Not voting or present (4)
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
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