Senate Roll Call 353, 95th Congress · September 8, 1977
TO TABLE THE HANSEN AMENDMENT #836 TO S. 977. THE HANSEN AMENDMENT STRIKES FROM THE CLEAN AIR ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1977 THE SECTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT TO REQUIRE MAJOR INDUSTRIAL COAL BURNERS TO UTILIZE LOCAL AND REGIONAL COAL SUPPLIES.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to require that new and, to the extent practicable, existing electric powerplants and major fuel-burning installations, in categories to be determined, utilize other than natural gas or petroleum as their primary energy source in compliance with applicable environmental requirements.
Policy area: Energy — 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(0.80): Tabling an amendment to strike Clean Air Act provisions preserves environmental regulation.
Tagged by: keyword:clean air act,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 (46)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Richard Bernard Stone
- 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.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- 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
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- John Melcher
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (7)
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
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