Senate Roll Call 974, 95th Congress · August 21, 1978
TO AMEND S. 3073, THE BILL AUTHORIZING FUNDS FOR THE FEDERAL AID HIGHWAY PROGRAM THROUGH FISCAL YEAR 1980, BY AUTHORIZING $100 MILLION FOR EACH OF FISCAL YEARS 1979 AND 1980 FOR A PROGRAM TO REHABILITATE ROADS ON WHICH COAL IS BEING SHIPPED.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Federal Aid Highway Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works — 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(0.85): Authorizing funding specifically to support coal transport roads prioritizes fossil fuels.
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 (37)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (52)
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (11)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Maryon Pittman AllenDid not vote
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Paul Gerhart HatfieldDid not vote
- Muriel Buck HumphreyDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
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