Senate Roll Call 171, 101st Congress · September 7, 1989
To require a judge to consider if a defendant who is accused of discrimination on the basis of disability has acted in good faith. — TO AMEND S 933, AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT OF 1989, TO MAKE IT NECESSARY FOR A JUDGE TO DECIDE WHETHER SOMEONE ACCUSED OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF DISABILITY BEHAVED IN GOOD FAITH.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — 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(0.90): Adding a good-faith defense weakens remedies for discrimination victims, narrowing protections.
Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
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 (90)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (0)
None
Not voting or present (10)
- Brockman AdamsDid not vote
- Max BaucusDid not vote
- Conrad BurnsDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- Trent LottDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- James Terry SanfordDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
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