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House Roll Call 647, 97th Congress · September 8, 1982

TO AMEND THE FLORIO SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6307, A BILL AMENDING THE SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL ACT TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEARS 1983 AND 1984. THE FLORIO AMENDMENT MAKES SUNDRY TECHNICAL AND CLARIFYING CHANGES IN THE ORIGINAL BILL AND INCORPORATES THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS. THE DANNEMEYER AMENDMENT STRIKES LANGUAGE PRESERVING THE RIGHTS OF LITIGANTS UNDER ANY STATUTE OF COMMON LAW. (MOTION FAILED)

85 yea · 255 nay86 not voting or present
Democrat16 yea · 165 nay
Republican71 yea · 92 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6307

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Reauthorization Act of 1982

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 & EnergyA yea counts toward “Fossil fuel priority”

    model(0.85): Striking litigant rights under waste legislation weakens environmental enforcement.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Environmental Protection

    Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Amendment regarding legal rights is incidental to spending and budget.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (88)

Nay (258)

Not voting or present (86)

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