Senate Roll Call 122, 100th Congress · May 21, 1987

TO TABLE THE HELMS, NC AMENDMENT TO HR 1827, THE FISCAL 1987 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS, WHICH WOULD PREVENT ANY PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY FUNDS FROM BEING USED BY ANY STATE UNLESS THE STATE REQUIRES AIDS TESTING OF ALL MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICANTS.

63 yea · 32 nay5 not voting or present

Democrat41 yea · 8 nay

Republican22 yea · 24 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1827 ↗

Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1987

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.

Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”
model(0.85): Tabling a restriction on public health emergency funds preserves health coverage funding.
Tagged by: keyword:public health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Policy restriction rider on health funding is unclear on a fiscal axis.
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)

Nay (32)

Not voting or present (5)

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