Senate Roll Call 423, 103rd Congress · February 8, 1994
To provide that no Federal funds shall be used by the Department of Education or the Department of Health and Human Services to support the distribution or provision of condoms or other contraceptive devices or drugs to an unemancipated minor without the prior written consent of such minor's parent or guardian. — (SENATE REJECTED THE HELMS AMENDMENT NO. 1390, TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE DISTRIBUTION OR PROVISION OF CONDOMS OR OTHER CONTRACEPTION DEVICES OR DRUGS TO AN UNEMANCIPATED MINOR WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF SUCH MINOR'S PARENT OR GUARDIAN.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Goals 2000: Educate America Act
Policy area: Education — 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.
- Abortion & ContraceptionA yea counts toward “Restrict access”
model(0.95): Restricts distribution of contraceptives to unemancipated minors without parental consent.
Tagged by: keyword:contraception
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- EducationDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.75) Social policy restriction on federal grants has an ambiguous impact on federal educational role.
Tagged by: policy-area:Education
Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (34)
- Robert F. Bennett
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- Harlan Mathews
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Robert Smith
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (59)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Richard G. Lugar
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Not voting or present (7)
- John B. BreauxDid not vote
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- Kay Bailey HutchisonDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Carol Moseley BraunDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
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