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Senate Roll Call 856, 95th Congress · July 18, 1978

TO AGREE TO A MODIFIED AMENDMENT TO S. 2899, THE BILL ESTABLISHING AN ENDANGERED SPECIES INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE TO CLARIFY AND RESOLVE CONFLICTS BETWEEN FEDERAL PROJECTS AND LAWS PROTECTING ENDANGERED SPECIES. THE STENNIS AMENDMENT WOULD EXEMPT FROM THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973 ANY FEDERAL PROJECT FOR WHICH CONSTRUCTION FUNDS HAD BEEN APPROPRIATED AS OF THE DATE OF ENACTMENT OF THAT ACT, AND ANY PROJECT THAT HAD ALREADY EXPENDED 50% OF ITS AUTHORIZED FUNDS.

22 yea · 76 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat10 yea · 50 nay
Republican12 yea · 26 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2899 ↗

Endangered Species Act Amendments of 1978

Policy area: Environmental Protection — 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 “Fossil fuel priority”

    model(0.95): Exempting projects from the Endangered Species Act weakens environmental protections.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Environmental Protection

    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 (22)

Nay (77)

Not voting or present (1)

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