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Senate Roll Call 290, 100th Congress · September 30, 1987

TO TABLE THE HELMS, NC AMENDMENT TO HR 2713, THE FISCAL 1988 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATION, WHICH WOULD CURTAIL FUNDING UNLESS A LOCAL LAW PROHIBITING INSURANCE COMPANY DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE WHO HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE AIDS VIRUS IS REPEALED.

44 yea · 55 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat35 yea · 18 nay
Republican9 yea · 37 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2713 ↗

District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1988

Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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.

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”

    model(0.85): Tabling the amendment kills an attempt to overturn a local law prohibiting AIDS discrimination.

    Tagged by: keyword:discrimination

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (44)

Nay (55)

Not voting or present (1)

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