Senate Roll Call 241, 102nd Congress · October 31, 1991
To provide that none of the funds made available to the National Endowment for the Arts under this Act may be used to promote, disseminate, or produce materials that depict or describe, in a patently offensive way, sexual or excretory activities or organs. — (SENATE TABLED THE HELMS AMENDMENT NO. 1299, TO PROHIBIT 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 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 policy rider restricting content for NEA grants is a cultural fight, not a fiscal spending issue.
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 (73)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Larry E. Craig
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- 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
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (25)
- George Hanks Brown
- Daniel Coats
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- John Seymour
- Richard C. Shelby
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
Not voting or present (2)
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- Harris WoffordDid not vote
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