Senate Roll Call 586, 97th Congress · April 29, 1982
(CONTINUED) TO TABLE THE MOYNIHAN MOTION TO RECONSIDER THE PREVIOUS VOTE BY WHICH THE THURMOND AMENDMENT TO S. 1662 WAS TABLED. THE THURMOND AMENDMENT STRIKES SECTIONS WHICH AUTHORIZE A FEDERAL PROGRAM TO PROVIDE 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) Reconsidering a vote on nuclear waste storage policy is unclear on this climate 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 (46)
- 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
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- 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
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Jennings Randolph
- 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)
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- 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
- 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
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
Not voting or present (10)
- James AbdnorDid not vote
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.Did not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Howell Thomas HeflinDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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