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Senate Roll Call 218, 101st Congress · September 29, 1989

Expressing the sense of the Senate instructing the conferees on H.R. 2788 to include language as follows: None of the funds authorized to be appropriated pursuant to this Act may be used to promote, disseminate, or produce obscene materials, including but not limited to obscene depiction of sadomasochism, homo-eroticism, the sexual exploitation of children, or individuals engaged in sexual intercourse. — TO AMEND THE HELMS (R, NC) AMENDMENT TO HR 2991, COMMERCE, JUSTICE AND STATE DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS, TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO PROHIBIT FEDERAL FUNDS FROM BEING USED TO PROMOTE OR DISTRIBUTE OBSCENE MATERIALS.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

65 yea · 31 nayAmendment Agreed to4 not voting or present
Democrat50 yea · 2 nay
Republican14 yea · 29 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2991 ↗

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A restriction on funding obscene materials is a policy fight where monetary impact is incidental.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (65)

Nay (31)

Not voting or present (4)

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