Senate Roll Call 585, 97th Congress · April 29, 1982
TO TABLE THE THURMOND AMENDMENT TO S. 1662 TO STRIKE SECTIONS WHICH AUTHORIZE A FEDERAL PROGRAM TO PROVIDE AWAY-FROM-REACTOR (AFR), INTERIM STORAGE OF COMMERCIAL SPENT FUEL. (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) Federal away-from-reactor nuclear waste storage policy is unclear on 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 (47)
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- John Claggett Danforth
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (44)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
Not voting or present (9)
- James AbdnorDid not vote
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Max BaucusDid not vote
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.Did not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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