Senate Roll Call 492, 102nd Congress · September 17, 1992
To limit funding for programs that distribute sterile needles for the hypodermic injection of illegal drugs. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT NO. 3020 (TO HELMS AMENDMENT NO. 3018), IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993
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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.85): Limiting funding for needle distribution programs reduces government spending.
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 (69)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Jocelyn Birch Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- 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
- Connie Mack III
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Seymour
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Nay (29)
- Christopher S. Bond
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Larry E. Craig
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (2)
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Timothy E. WirthDid not vote
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