Senate Roll Call 220, 101st Congress · September 29, 1989
To provide additional funds for construction of facilities for U.S. prisoners in non-Federal institutions. — TO TABLE THE SPECTER (R, PA) AMENDMENT TO HR 2991, COMMERCE, JUSTICE AND STATE DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS, TO GIVE MORE FUNDS FOR THE BUILDING OF MORE FEDERAL PRISON FACILITIES.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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.
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”
model(0.85): Tabling an amendment to build more prison facilities stops a punitive expansion.
Tagged by: keyword:prison
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.90): Tabling an amendment to spend additional funds on prisons acts as fiscal restraint.
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 (74)
- Brockman Adams
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- 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
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- 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
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (20)
- Max Baucus
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Conrad Burns
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Henry John Heinz III
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- James Albertus McClure
- Don Nickles
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (6)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- James M. JeffordsDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
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