Senate Roll Call 216, 101st Congress · September 29, 1989
To express the Sense of the Senate that the conferees on H.R.2788, Department of the Interior Appropriations, 1990, should insist on amendment number 7, to prohibit the use of appropriated funds for the dissemination, promotion or production of obscene or indecent materials denigrating a particular religion. — TO TABLE THE HELMS (R, NC) AMENDMENT TO HR 3072, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS, TO PROHIBIT FUNDS FROM BEING USED TO PRODUCE OR DISTRIBUTE OBSCENE MATERIALS OR THOSE DEROGATORY TO ANY RELIGION.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1990
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Prohibiting funding for indecent materials is unrelated to defense and war powers.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A rider prohibiting funds for obscene materials is a social policy fight, not a fiscal axis issue.
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 (62)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- 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
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- John W. Warner
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (35)
- William Lester Armstrong
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Richard C. Shelby
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (3)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- James M. JeffordsDid not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
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