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Senate Roll Call 594, 104th Congress · December 7, 1995

To express the sense of the Senate that the Senate should, through the Committee on the Judiciary, conduct hearings to investigate the effect of the new patent provisions of title 35, United States Code, (as amended by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act) on the approval of generic drugs. — (SENATE FAILED TO TABLE DEWINE/DODD AMENDMENT NO. 3088 TO AMENDMENT NO. 3082, TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY SHOULD CONDUCT HEARINGS TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT OF THE NEW PATENT PROVISIONS OF TITLE 35, UNITED STATES CODE, (AS AMENDED BY THE URUGUAY ROUND AGREEMENTS ACT) ON THE APPROVAL OF GENERIC DRUGS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

48 yea · 49 nayMotion to Table Failed2 not voting or present
Democrat36 yea · 9 nay
Republican11 yea · 39 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1833 ↗

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1995

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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.

  • Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Sense of Senate resolution on generic drug patents is unrelated to criminal justice.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (48)

Nay (49)

Not voting or present (2)

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