Senate Roll Call 893, 104th Congress · September 10, 1996
A bill to define and protect the institution of marriage. — H.R.3396 BY BARR (R-GA) -- DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT (PUB.L. 104-199, APPROVED 9/21/96) (SENATE PASSED H.R. 3396, TO DEFINE AND PROTECT THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE.)
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Defense of Marriage Act
Policy area: Families — 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.
- LGBTQ PolicyA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”
model(0.95): Defines marriage strictly to exclude same-sex unions, narrowing LGBTQ rights.
Tagged by: keyword:defense of marriage
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (85)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- 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
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Sheila Frahm
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- 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
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- 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 (14)
Not voting or present (1)
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
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