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Senate Roll Call 445, 102nd Congress · July 30, 1992

To prevent the District of Columbia from implementing a system of registration for unmarried, cohabitating homosexual, lesbian, and heterosexual couples in the Nation's Capital in order to sanction such relationships and to grant such unmarried couples certain rights and benefits traditionally reserved for couples who have entered into the legally enforceable bonds of matrimony. — (SENATE FAILED TO TABLE THE LOTT AMENDMENT NO. 2799, TO PREVENT THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FROM IMPLEMENTING A SYSTEM OF REGISTRATION FOR UNMARRIED, COHABITING HOMOSEXUAL, LESBIAN, AND HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL IN ORDER TO SANCTION SUCH RELATIONSHIPS AND TO GRANT SUCH UNMARRIED COUPLES CERTAIN RIGHTS AND BENEFITS TRADITIONALLY RESERVED FOR COUPLES WHO HAVE ENTERED INTO THE LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE BONDS OF MATRIMONY.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

41 yea · 51 nayMotion to Table Failed8 not voting or present
Democrat34 yea · 18 nay
Republican7 yea · 32 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5517 ↗

Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1993, and for other purposes.

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 (0.95) Preventing domestic partner registration in DC is a social policy issue, not fiscal.

    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 (41)

Nay (51)

Not voting or present (8)

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