Senate Roll Call 656, 100th Congress · July 11, 1988
TO AMEND HR 4776, FISCAL 1989 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS, TO EXEMPT LOCAL RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS FROM LOCAL LAWS PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1989
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 “Narrow protections”
model(0.95): Exempting institutions from non-discrimination laws narrows civil rights protections.
Tagged by: keyword:discrimination
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
- LGBTQ PolicyA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”
model(0.95): Exempting institutions from non-discrimination laws narrows LGBTQ protections.
Tagged by: keyword:sexual orientation
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Social policy exemption on an appropriations bill has no clear direct impact on fiscal expansion or restraint.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
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 (58)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John B. Breaux
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Nay (34)
- Brockman Adams
- Dale Bumpers
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- 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.
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (8)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Jesse HelmsDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
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