Senate Roll Call 756, 96th Congress · June 24, 1980
TO TABLE TSONGAS AMENDMENT TO S. 2470, AUTHORIZING FUNDS FOR FISCAL 1980-1982 TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONVERSION OF COAL USE BY ELECTRIC UTILITIES, BY ESTABLISHING CERTAIN CONDITIONS REGARDING LOANS AND GRANTS. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Powerplant Fuel Conservation Act of 1980
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 & EnergyA yea counts toward “Fossil fuel priority”
model(0.75): Tabling conditions on coal conversion loans removes environmental constraints, favoring fossil fuel conversion.
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 (63)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (31)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Chester Culver
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (6)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
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