Senate Roll Call 136, 102nd Congress · July 18, 1991
To make it a Federal crime for a doctor, dentist or other health care professional who has AIDS and knows it to perform invasive medical procedures without informing the patient. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE HELMS/THURMOND AMENDMENT NO. 734 (TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT BEGINNING ON PAGE 59, LINE 7), MAKING IT A FEDERAL CRIME FOR A DOCTOR, DENTIST OR OTHER HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL WHO HAS AIDS AND KNOWS IT TO PERFORM INVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES WITHOUT INFORMING THE PATIENT.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1992
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.
- Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Criminalizing procedures by HIV-positive doctors is a public health/criminal issue, not coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:health care
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Criminalizing medical procedures without disclosure is a policy rider, not a spending measure.
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 (81)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Seymour
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Timothy E. Wirth
- Harris Wofford
Nay (18)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (1)
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
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