Senate Roll Call 191, 102nd Congress · September 13, 1991
To place a moratorium on the patenting of mining claims under the general mining laws. — (SENATE TABLED THE BUMPERS AMENDMENT NO. 1128, TO PLACE A MORATORIUM ON THE PATENTING OF MINING CLAIMS UNDER THE GENERAL MINING LAWS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies 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.
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A moratorium on mining patents is a public land policy decision with incidental budget impact.
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 (47)
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Harry Reid
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (46)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Daniel Coats
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Alan John Dixon
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- 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
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Not voting or present (7)
- Christopher S. BondDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Bob GrahamDid not vote
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- Tom HarkinDid not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
- John SeymourDid not vote
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