Clean air, water and public land
Votes on pollution limits, endangered species, and how much federal land is opened to drilling, mining and logging.
15 of these 15 votes split the parties — 9 in the House and 6 in the Senate — and only those place anyone on the scale. Which end is which is read from the votes: it is the side most Democrats took on most of them.
Tina Smith on this value
6 of 6 party-split votes with the Democrats and 0 with the Republicans.
The 15 votes behind this value
Each was chosen by hand, and the sentence under it is the written reason for what a yea and a nay each did. Under that is how each party voted, which is where the two ends of the scale come from. Every one links to its full roll call, where you can see the question as the chamber put it and how every member voted.
S.J.Res. 187 disapproves the EPA rule that pushes back the start of the reporting period for PFAS 'forever chemicals' under the Toxic Substances Control Act. Because the rule being struck is a DELAY, a yea keeps the earlier reporting deadline.
Democrats 45–0, Republicans 1–50. Most Democrats voted yea and most Republicans nay. Tina Smith voted yea — the Democratic side.
The Senate's vote on the same resolution. A nay leaves the mineral withdrawal in place.
Democrats 0–45, Republicans 50–2. Most Democrats voted nay and most Republicans yea. Tina Smith voted nay — the Democratic side.
Reopen withdrawn federal land in Minnesota to mining
Not seated for this voteH.J.Res. 140 strikes Public Land Order 7917, the twenty-year mineral withdrawal covering federal land in the Boundary Waters watershed. A nay leaves the withdrawal in place.
Democrats 1–207, Republicans 212–1. Most Democrats voted nay and most Republicans yea.
S.J.Res. 76 disapproves the EPA rule extending deadlines in its standards of performance and emission guidelines. The rule being struck is an extension, so a yea holds sources to the original dates.
Democrats 44–0, Republicans 1–51. Most Democrats voted yea and most Republicans nay. Tina Smith voted yea — the Democratic side.
Void the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska management plan
Not seated for this voteS.J.Res. 80 strikes the Bureau of Land Management's integrated activity plan for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, which had limited leasing in designated special areas. A nay leaves the plan standing.
Democrats 3–208, Republicans 212–1. Most Democrats voted nay and most Republicans yea.
Void the BLM Buffalo field office plan
Not seated for this voteH.J.Res. 130 strikes the Bureau of Land Management's Buffalo field office record of decision, which had curtailed new coal leasing in the Powder River Basin. A nay leaves the plan standing.
Democrats 0–211, Republicans 213–1. Most Democrats voted nay and most Republicans yea.
Void the BLM North Dakota resource management plan
Not seated for this voteH.J.Res. 105 strikes the Bureau of Land Management's North Dakota field office record of decision. A nay leaves the plan standing.
Democrats 0–210, Republicans 214–1. Most Democrats voted nay and most Republicans yea.
Void the BLM Central Yukon resource management plan
Not seated for this voteH.J.Res. 106 strikes the Bureau of Land Management's Central Yukon record of decision, reopening land the plan had placed off limits. A nay leaves the plan standing.
Democrats 0–209, Republicans 214–1. Most Democrats voted nay and most Republicans yea.
Void the BLM Miles City resource management plan
Not seated for this voteH.J.Res. 104 strikes the Bureau of Land Management's record of decision for the Miles City field office. These plans set how much federal land is open to leasing; striking one reopens ground the plan had restricted. A nay leaves the plan standing.
Democrats 0–207, Republicans 210–1. Most Democrats voted nay and most Republicans yea.
The Senate's vote on the same resolution. A nay leaves the hazardous air pollutant standards in force.
Democrats 2–43, Republicans 53–0. Most Democrats voted nay and most Republicans yea. Tina Smith voted nay — the Democratic side.
Void an Endangered Species Act listing
Not seated for this voteH.J.Res. 78 strikes the Fish and Wildlife Service rule listing a species as endangered, which removes the protections that follow from listing. A nay leaves the listing in force.
Democrats 3–194, Republicans 212–1. Most Democrats voted nay and most Republicans yea.
Revoke California's low-NOx engine waiver
Not seated for this voteH.J.Res. 89 withdraws the EPA waiver behind California's Omnibus Low NOx regulation for heavy engines, a nitrogen-oxide (smog) standard. A nay leaves the waiver in place.
Democrats 10–195, Republicans 214–1. Most Democrats voted nay and most Republicans yea.
An amendment preventing proceeds from federal public land sales being counted against the deficit, which removes a budgetary incentive to sell public land. A yea is the side protecting public ownership.
Democrats 44–0, Republicans 2–51. Most Democrats voted yea and most Republicans nay. Tina Smith voted yea — the Democratic side.
Void hazardous air pollutant standards for tire manufacturing
Not seated for this voteH.J.Res. 61 strikes the EPA's national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants from rubber tire manufacturing. A nay leaves them in force.
Democrats 7–201, Republicans 208–1. Most Democrats voted nay and most Republicans yea.
An amendment creating a reserve fund to reinstate dismissed employees at the Forest Service, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management -- the staff who administer and enforce land and wildlife protections.
Democrats 45–0, Republicans 1–52. Most Democrats voted yea and most Republicans nay. Tina Smith voted yea — the Democratic side.
The method behind all 12 values, including what it deliberately does not measure.