Senate Roll Call 987, 95th Congress · August 22, 1978
TO AGREE TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. 9, THE BILL ESTABLISHING A POLICY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS IN THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Outer Continental Shelf Lands 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 & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.70) OCS oil and gas management legislation balances environmental safeguards with energy development.
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 (82)
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (7)
Not voting or present (11)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Carl Thomas CurtisDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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