Senate Roll Call 512, 102nd Congress · September 24, 1992
A bill to grant employees family and temporary medical leave under certain circumstances, and for other purposes. — S.5 BY DODD (D-CT) -- FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT OF 1992 (VETOED, 9/22/92) (TWO-THIRDS OF THE SENATORS VOTING HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, S. 5, THE FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT OF 1992, UPON RECONSIDERATION, WAS PASSED, THE VETO OF THE PRESIDENT NOTWITHSTANDING.)
Question before the chamber: On Overriding the Veto
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1991
Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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.
- Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”
model(0.95): Overriding veto to mandate family leave establishes worker rights.
Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment
Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (68)
- 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
- Jocelyn Birch Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- 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.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- 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
- David Hampton Pryor
- 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
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Paul David Wellstone
- Timothy E. Wirth
- Harris Wofford
Nay (31)
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- Thad Cochran
- Larry E. Craig
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (1)
- John SeymourDid not vote
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