Senate Roll Call 859, 95th Congress · July 19, 1978
TO AMEND S. 2899 BY EXEMPTING ANY FEDERAL PROJECT FOR WHICH A "SUBSTANTIAL AND IRRETRIEVABLE COMMITMENT OF RESOURCES" WAS MADE PRIOR TO THE DISCOVERY OF POSSIBLE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF THE PROJECT TO AN ENDANGERED SPECIES.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 existing resource-committed projects weakens Endangered Species Act enforcement.
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 (25)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- John Anthony Durkin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (70)
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- 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
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- 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
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Claiborne de Borda PellDid not vote
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