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Senate Roll Call 537, 100th Congress · April 28, 1988

TO TABLE THE HELMS, NC AMENDMENT TO THE NICKLES, OK AMENDMENT TO S 1220, AIDS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACT, TO PREVENT USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR ANY ACTIVITIES OR MATERIALS THAT DIRECTLY "PROMOTE OR ENCOURAGE" HOMOSEXUAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY. THE 3 AMENDMENT REQUIRED THAT FEDERAL AIDS PROGRAMS ISSUE WARNINGS OF HIGH-RISK ACTIVITIES, AND WAS SUBSEQUENTLY ADOPTED BY VOICE VOTE.

22 yea · 73 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat16 yea · 36 nay
Republican6 yea · 37 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(0.85): Tabling the amendment kills a restriction on federal funding for AIDS education programs.

    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 (22)

Nay (73)

Not voting or present (5)

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