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House Roll Call 727, 97th Congress · November 30, 1982

TO AMEND H.R. 3809 TO REQUIRE THE SECRETARY TO SET POPULATION GUIDELINES THAT DISQUALIFY CANDIDATE SURFACE REPOSITORY SITES IN HIGHLY POPULATED AREAS. (MOTION FAILED)

109 yea · 293 nay31 not voting or present
Democrat99 yea · 113 nay
Republican10 yea · 177 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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) Population guidelines for nuclear waste repositories do not move along the climate versus fossil fuel axis.

    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 (109)

Nay (293)

Not voting or present (31)

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