Senate Roll Call 791, 104th Congress · June 27, 1996
To eliminate taxpayer subsidies for recreational shooting programs, and to prevent the transfer of federally-owned weapons, ammunition, funds, and other property to a private Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and Firearms Safety. — (SENATE TABLED LAUTENBERG AMENDMENT NO. 4218, TO BLOCK THE TRANSFER OF $76 MILLION OF FEDERALLY-OWNED WEAPONS, AMMUNITION, FUNDS, AND OTHER PROPERTY TO A PRIVATE CORPORATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF RIFLE PRACTICE AND FIREARMS SAFETY.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.
- GunsA yea counts toward “Gun rights”
model(0.90): Tabling an amendment to eliminate firearm and shooting subsidies protects civilian gun programs.
Tagged by: keyword:ammunition
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.60) Recreational shooting subsidies are not directly central to core defense policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (71)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Sheila Frahm
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Jon Kyl
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
Nay (29)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (0)
None
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