Senate Roll Call 244, 98th Congress · September 20, 1983
TO AMEND H.R. 3363, A BILL APPROPRIATING $8.04 BILLION IN FUNDS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR FISCAL YEAR 1984. THE BUMPERS AMENDMENT ESTABLISHES A COMMISSION TO EVALUATE THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR'S COAL LEASING PROCEDURES AND POSTPONES NEW LEASING DURING THAT EVALUATION PERIOD. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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 “Climate action”
model(0.90): Postponing coal leasing to evaluate procedures restricts fossil fuel development.
Tagged by: keyword:coal
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) A coal leasing moratorium is an energy policy change, not a clear shift on the fiscal spending scale.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (63)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- 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
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (33)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- David Lyle Boren
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Thad Cochran
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (4)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- J. Strom ThurmondDid not vote
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