Senate Roll Call 828, 96th Congress · July 28, 1980
TO AMEND S. 2189, PROVIDING FOR THE STORAGE AND DISPOSAL OF NUCLEAR WASTE, BY CONSIDERING THE ROLE THAT STATES AND LOCALITIES ARE TO HAVE IN FEDERAL NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An act to set forth a Federal policy for the disposal of low-level radioactive wastes, and for other purposes.
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 (0.85) State and local roles in nuclear waste repository planning do not map clearly to climate action.
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 (84)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- 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
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (0)
None
Not voting or present (16)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- Donald Wilbur StewartDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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