Senate Roll Call 836, 96th Congress · July 30, 1980
TO TABLE HART AMENDMENT TO S. 2189, NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY, THAT ESTABLISHED A PROCEDURE FOR EXPEDITING THE LICENSING OF ADDITIONAL ON-SITE STORAGE POOLS WHILE THE ELIGIBILITY FOR A FEDERAL AFR STORAGE PROGRAM ONLY TO THOSE UTILITIES WHO DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY MUST SHIP THEIR SPEN FUEL TO THE AFR FACILITY AS A LAST RESORT TO AVOID SHUTTING DOWN A NUCLEAR POWERPLANT. (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) Nuclear waste storage regulations do not map cleanly to climate action versus fossil fuels.
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 (52)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (44)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (4)
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Donald Wilbur StewartDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
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