Senate Roll Call 583, 97th Congress · April 29, 1982
TO TABLE THE PROXMIRE AMENDMENT TO S. 1662, A BILL ESTABLISHING A FEDERAL PROGRAM FOR THE INTERIM STORAGE AND (CONTINUED) PERMANENT DISPOSAL OF HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE FROM CIVILIAN POWERPLANTS. THE PROXMIRE AMENDMENT PERMITS STATES TO BLOCK A WASTE DISPOSAL SITE. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 29
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National 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) Nuclear waste repository state vetoes do not clearly map to the climate/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 (71)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (20)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Thad Cochran
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John Cornelius Stennis
Not voting or present (9)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.Did not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Paul S. SarbanesDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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