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1998 Scorecard Vote
176
243
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H.R. 4194, the bill that appropriates funds for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), included nine riders restricting the agency’s ability to administer existing environmental laws. Some of these provisions were included in the text of the bill itself; others were specified in the committee report language accompanying the bill.
The riders would:
When the bill came to the House floor, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) offered an amendment to override all the anti-environment riders in the bill except those related to global warming, which were the subject of a separate amendment (See House vote 10).
On July 23, 1998, the House rejected the Waxman amendment, 176 – 243. YES is the pro-environment vote.
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