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House Roll Call 823, 98th Congress · August 9, 1984

TO AMEND H.R. 5640 TO STRIKE LANGUAGE PROVIDING FOR CITIZEN SUITS. (MOTION FAILED)

141 yea · 248 nay35 not voting or present
Democrat36 yea · 198 nay
Republican109 yea · 51 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5640

Superfund Expansion and Protection Act of 1984

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 & EnergyA yea counts toward “Fossil fuel priority”

    model(0.85): Strikes citizen suits provision, weakening environmental enforcement.

    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 (145)

Nay (252)

Not voting or present (35)

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