Senate Roll Call 580, 101st Congress · October 12, 1990
To obligate certain funds for use in programs promoting the health of children and the elderly. — TO TABLE THE HELMS (R, NC) AMENDMENT TO HR 5257, LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS, FISCAL YEAR 1991, TO TRANSFER CERTAIN FUNDS MADE AVAILABLE FOR PROGRAMS RELATING TO AIDS TO PROGRAMS RELATING TO THE PREVENTION OF INFANT MORTALITY AND SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME, CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH CENTERS, MENTAL RETARDATION IN CHILDREN, AND PROGRAMS RELATING TO ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991
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 (0.95) A net-neutral transfer of funds between health programs.
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 (70)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- 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
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston 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
- John McCain
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- 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
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John W. Warner
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (23)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Christopher S. Bond
- Conrad Burns
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Trent Lott
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
Not voting or present (7)
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- Pete WilsonDid not vote
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