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Senate Roll Call 197, 102nd Congress · September 19, 1991

To prohibit the use of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts to promote, produce, disseminate, or distribute obscene materials. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE HELMS AMENDMENT NO. 1175 (TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ON PAGE 100, LINE 14), PROHIBITING THE USE OF FUNDS FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS TO PROMOTE, PRODUCE, DISSEMINATE, OR DISTRIBUTE OBSCENE MATERIALS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

68 yea · 28 nayAmendment Agreed to4 not voting or present
Democrat33 yea · 22 nay
Republican35 yea · 4 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2686 ↗

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 (0.85) This is a content/obscenity 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 (68)

Nay (28)

Not voting or present (4)

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