Senate Roll Call 587, 97th Congress · April 29, 1982
TO TABLE THE STENNIS AMENDMENT TO S. 1662. THE STENNIS AMENDMENT REQUIRES THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY TO IDENTIFY AND RECOMMEND TO THE PRESIDENT, USING THE RESULTS OF THE NATIONAL SITE SURVEY, AT LEAST FOUR SITES DETERMINED TO BE SUITABLE FOR REPOSITORIES. (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) Surveying sites for nuclear waste repositories does not map cleanly to climate action vs fossil fuel.
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 (63)
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- 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
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (27)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- 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
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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