Senate Roll Call 460, 102nd Congress · August 7, 1992
A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with respect to bilingual election requirements. — (SENATE PASSED H.R. 4312, TO AMEND THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 WITH RESPECT TO BILINGUAL ELECTION REQUIREMENTS.)
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Voting Rights Language Assistance Act of 1992
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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.
- Voting & ElectionsA yea counts toward “Expand access”
model(0.95): Passing bilingual election assistance requirements expands voting access for language minority citizens.
Tagged by: keyword:voting rights
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (75)
- 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
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- 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
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Seymour
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Nay (20)
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Larry E. Craig
- John Claggett Danforth
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
Not voting or present (5)
- Quentin Northrup BurdickDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Jesse HelmsDid not vote
- Timothy E. WirthDid not vote
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