Senate Roll Call 318, 104th Congress · July 20, 1995
To provide that none of the funds in this Act may be used to award Federal contracts to unqualified persons, in reverse discrimination, or in quotas, or is inconsistent with the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in ADARAND CONSTRUCTORS, INC., v. PENA on June 12, 1995. — (SENATE AGREED TO MURRAY MODIFIED AMENDMENT NO. 1826, TO PROVIDE THAT NONE OF THE FUNDS IN THIS ACT MAY BE USED TO AWARD FEDERAL CONTRACTS TO UNQUALIFIED PERSONS, IN REVERSE DISCRIMINATION, OR IN QUOTAS, OR IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES IN ADARAND CONSTRUCTORS, INC. V. PENA ON JUNE 12, 1995.)
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.
- Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”
model(0.80): Restricting preferences or quotas in federal contracting narrows civil rights affirmative action protections.
Tagged by: keyword:discrimination
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) A policy rider regarding federal contract selection criteria is incidental to spending policy.
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 (84)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Dirk Kempthorne
- 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
- Connie Mack III
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
Nay (13)
Not voting or present (3)
- John AshcroftDid not vote
- Duncan McLauchlin FairclothDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
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