House Roll Call 724, 97th Congress · November 29, 1982

TO AMEND H.R. 3809 SO AS TO DISQUALIFY HIGHLY POPULATED AREAS OR AREAS CONTAINING 1,000 OR MORE PEOPLE PER SQUARE MILE FROM CONSIDERATION AS POTENTIAL WASTE SITES. (MOTION FAILED)

81 yea · 296 nay56 not voting or present

Democrat14 yea · 191 nay

Republican67 yea · 103 nay

Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3809 ↗

Nuclear Waste Policy 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 & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Siting requirements for nuclear waste do not clearly align with climate action versus fossil fuel priority.
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 (81)

Nay (296)

Not voting or present (56)

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