Senate Roll Call 588, 97th Congress · April 29, 1982
TO TABLE THE COCHRAN AMENDMENT TO S. 1662, REQUIRING THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY TO INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE GRANITE SITE AMONG THE FIRST THREE SITES FOR WASTE REPOSITORIES HE IDENTIFIES. (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) Granite site requirements for nuclear waste storage do not map to the 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 (83)
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- 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
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- 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
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (5)
Not voting or present (12)
- James AbdnorDid not vote
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.Did not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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