Senate Roll Call 421, 95th Congress · September 26, 1977
THAT THE SENATE SUSTAIN THE RULING OF THE CHAIR THAT KENNEDY AMENDMENT #855 TO THE PEARSON-BENTSEN SUBSTITUTE (SEE RC 390) FOR S. 2104 IS NOT GERMANE TO THE BILL. KENNEDY AMENDME #855 PROHIBITS NATURAL GAS COMPANIES FROM OWNING OR CONTROLLING COAL OR URANIUM DEPOSITS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Natural Gas Policy Act
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 & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Sustaining a ruling of the chair on germaneness is a procedural vote.
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 (60)
- James George Abourezk
- 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
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- 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 (31)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
Not voting or present (9)
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.Did not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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