Senate Roll Call 533, 100th Congress · April 28, 1988

TO AMEND IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE THE HATCH AMENDMENT TO S 1220, AIDS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACT, TO PREVENT USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS TO PROVIDE HYPODERMIC NEEDLES AND SYRINGES THAT MIGHT BE USED FOR ILLEGAL DRUGS, UNLESS THE SURGEON GENERAL REPORTS THAT AN EXCHANGE PROGRAM WOULD BE EFFECTIVE IN CURBING DRUG ABUSE AND REDUCING THE SPREAD OF AIDS.

70 yea · 27 nay3 not voting or present

Democrat50 yea · 2 nay

Republican20 yea · 25 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1220 ↗

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research and Information Act of 1988

Policy area: Health — 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(0.80): Allowing needle exchange funding subject to Surgeon General approval softens a strict funding prohibition.
Tagged by: policy-area:Health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

Who voted which way

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

Yea (70)

Nay (27)

Not voting or present (3)

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