Senate Roll Call 495, 100th Congress · March 25, 1988
TO TABLE THE HELMS, NC AMENDMENT TO S 79, HIGH RISK OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE NOTIFICATION AND PREVENTION ACT, TO CLASSIFY HEALTH WORKERS AS A POPULATION AT RISK OF CONTRACTING THE AIDS VIRUS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act of 1987
Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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.
- Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Employer priority”
model(0.80): Tabling an amendment classifying health workers at risk of AIDS deprives workers of notification protections.
Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment
Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (47)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- John B. Breaux
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (34)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (19)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Jeff BingamanDid not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Jacob Chic HechtDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- David Kemp KarnesDid not vote
- Frank R. LautenbergDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
- Warren Bruce RudmanDid not vote
- James Terry SanfordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Steven Douglas SymmsDid not vote
- Pete WilsonDid not vote
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