Senate Roll Call 250, 103rd Congress · September 9, 1993
To express the sense of Congress concerning homosexuality in the Armed Forces. — S.1298 BY NUNN (D-GA) -- NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1994 COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION ACT OF 1993 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1994 BASE CLOSURE COMMUNITIES ACT OF 1993 PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1994 ACT TO PREVENT POLLUTION FROM SHIPS AMENDMENTS OF 1993 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIP ACT OF 1993 PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF THE PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ACT OF 1993 NATO REVIEW REQUIREMENTS LANDMINE MORATORIUM EXTENSION ACT OF 1993 (SENATE REJECTED THE BOXER AMENDMENT NO. 783, TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT THE POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT CONCERNING THE SERVICE OF HOMOSEXUALS IN THE ARMED FORCES IS A MATTER THAT SHOULD BE DETERMINED BY THE PRESIDENT BASED UPON ADVICE PROVIDED BY THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AND THE MILITARY ADVISORS TO THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY .)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Personnel policy regarding military service members does not expand or restrain military forces.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (33)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
Nay (63)
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Herb Kohl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Harlan Mathews
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- George John Mitchell
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Harris Wofford
Not voting or present (4)
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Kay Bailey HutchisonDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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