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Senate Roll Call 619, 101st Congress · October 24, 1990

To prohibit the use of funds by the National Endowment for the Arts to promote, distribute, disseminate, or produce materials that depict or describe sexual or excretory activities or organs. — TO AMEND HR 5769, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1991, TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF FUNDS BY THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS TO PROMOTE, DISTRIBUTE, DISSEMINATE, OR PRODUCE MATERIALS THAT DEPICT OR DESCRIBE SEXUAL OR EXCRETORY ACTIVITIES OR ORGANISMS.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

29 yea · 70 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat5 yea · 49 nay
Republican24 yea · 19 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5769 ↗

Department of the Interior 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 (0.90) Content restrictions on NEA funding represent a policy rider where fiscal 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 (29)

Nay (70)

Not voting or present (1)

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