Senate Roll Call 590, 97th Congress · April 29, 1982
TO PASS S. 1662. (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) The Nuclear Waste Policy Act does not cleanly align with climate action vs fossil fuel priorities.
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 (74)
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- 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
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- 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
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- 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 (10)
Not voting or present (16)
- James AbdnorDid not vote
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Nicholas Frederick BradyDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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