Senate Roll Call 330, 103rd Congress · October 27, 1993
To prohibit the application of this Act, or any amendment made by this Act, to an individual who is incarcerated in a Federal, State, or local correctional, detention, or penal facility. — S.578 BY KENNEDY, EDWARD (D-MA) -- RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT OF 1993 (SENATE REJECTED THE REID AMENDMENT NO. 1083, TO PROHIBIT THE APPLICATION OF THIS ACT, OR ANY AMENDMENT MADE BY THIS ACT, TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS INCARCERATED IN A FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL CORRECTIONAL, DETENTION, OR PENAL FACILITY.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — 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.
- Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”
model(0.95): Excluding incarcerated individuals from Religious Freedom Restoration Act protections narrows civil rights protections.
Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (41)
- Max Baucus
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Dianne Feinstein
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- Harlan Mathews
- John McCain
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (58)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Russell D. Feingold
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Not voting or present (1)
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
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