Senate Roll Call 317, 104th Congress · July 20, 1995
To ensure equal opportunity and merit selection in the award of Federal contracts. — (SENATE REJECTED GRAMM AMENDMENT NO. 1825, TO ENSURE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND MERIT SELECTION IN THE AWARD OF FEDERAL CONTRACTS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1996
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) An affirmative action policy rider on federal contracting is incidental to the budget axis.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (36)
- Spencer Abraham
- Robert F. Bennett
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Daniel Coats
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Robert Joseph Dole
- J. James Exon
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- James M. Inhofe
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Richard C. Shelby
- Robert Smith
- Craig Thomas
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (61)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Fred Thompson
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (3)
- John AshcroftDid not vote
- Duncan McLauchlin FairclothDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
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