Skip to content
Their Record

Senate Roll Call 355, 95th Congress · September 8, 1977

TO AMEND S. 977 BY INSERTING A PROVISION THAT AUTHORIZES THE FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION TO RECOMMEND PRICE REGULATION OF COAL IF THE RATE OF INCREASE OF THE PRICE OF COAL IS 10% GREATER THAN THE RATE OF INFLATION DURING ANY TWELVE MONTH PERIOD.

39 yea · 44 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat37 yea · 20 nay
Republican3 yea · 25 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 977

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): Recommending price controls on coal restricts fossil fuel industry growth.

    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 (40)

Nay (46)

Not voting or present (14)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.