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Vote Data for S826 (95th Congress)


Date: May 18, 1977

Subject: Create Energy Department

Description: Passage of the bill to create a cabinet-level Department of Energy by consolidating the functions of the Federal Power Commission, the Federal Energy Administration, the Energy Research Development Administration, and other energy functions scattered throughout the federal government. This new bureaucracy cost the taxpayers more than $10 billion in its first year and, through its regulations, curbs U.S. production of new sources of energy, making us more dependent on foreign oil.

Result: Bill Passed, 74-10

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Voted in Favor:

Jim Allen (D-AL)  
Wendell Anderson (D-MN)  
Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX)  
Joe Biden (D-DE)  
Edward Brooke (R-MA)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (I-VA)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Clifford Case (R-NJ)  
Lawton Chiles (D-FL)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Dick Clark (D-IA)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
John Culver (D-IA)  
John Danforth (R-MO)  
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Pete Domenici (R-NM)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
James Eastland (D-MS)  
Wendell Ford (D-KY)  
John Glenn (D-OH)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Floyd Haskell (D-CO)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
William Hathaway (D-ME)  
John Heinz (R-PA)  
Ernest Hollings (D-SC)  
Walter Huddleston (D-KY)  
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Bennett Johnston (D-LA)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
Richard Lugar (R-IN)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
Spark Matsunaga (D-HI)  
Thomas McIntyre (D-NH)  
Lee Metcalf (D-MT)  
Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH)  
Robert Morgan (D-NC)  
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Sam Nunn (D-GA)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
James Pearson (R-KS)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
William Roth (R-DE)  
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)  
Jim Sasser (D-TN)  
Jack Schmitt (R-NM)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
John Sparkman (D-AL)  
Robert Stafford (R-VT)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Adlai Stevenson III (D-IL)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
Richard Stone (D-FL)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
Malcolm Wallop (R-WY)  
Lowell Weicker (R-CT)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  
Edward Zorinsky (D-NE)  

Voted Against:

John Durkin (D-NH)  
Jake Garn (R-UT)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Clifford Hansen (R-WY)  
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)  
Jesse Helms (R-NC)  
Paul Laxalt (R-NV)  
James McClure (R-ID)  
William Lloyd Scott (R-VA)  
John Tower (R-TX)  

Did Not Vote:

James Abourezk (D-SD)  
Dewey Bartlett (R-OK)  
Dale Bumpers (D-AR)  
John Chafee (R-RI)  
Carl Curtis (R-NE)  
Robert Griffin (R-MI)  
Gary Hart (D-CO)  
Sam Hayakawa (R-CA)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)  
John McClellan (D-AR)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
John Melcher (D-MT)  
Donald Riegle (D-MI)  

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