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House vote: H.R. 1644 // January 12, 2016

STREAM Act

Sponsor: Alexander Mooney (R-WV)

Supporting Transparent Regulatory and Environmental Actions in Mining Act or the STREAM Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to direct the Department of the Interior to make publicly available online and in the Federal Register, 90 days before publication, any draft, proposed, supplemental, final, or emergency rule, or any environmental analysis, economic assessment, policy, or guidance, and each scientific product upon which Interior has relied in developing the rule, the analysis, or the assessment. A scientific product is any product that: employs the scientific method for inventorying, monitoring, experimenting, studying, researching, or modeling purposes; is relied upon by Interior in developing any rule, environmental analysis, economic assessment, policy, or guidance; and is not protected under copyright laws.

Energy Topic assigned by the Congressional Research Service.

Who won, and how much of the country was behind them

Won the vote · Nay

223 votes, representing 127,598,338 people51.3%of U.S. adults

Lost the vote · Yea

189 votes, representing 108,313,979 people43.5%of U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 5.2% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Share of U.S. adults represented, the House
SideOutcomeVotesShare of U.S. adults
NayWon22351.3%
YeaLost18943.5%
Not represented on this questionNo position taken05.2%