Skip to content
Their Record

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

41 yea · 58 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat17 yea · 36 nay
Republican24 yea · 20 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 578

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)

Nay (58)

Not voting or present (1)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.