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Senate Roll Call 894, 104th Congress · September 10, 1996

A bill to prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. — S.2056 BY KENNEDY, EDWARD (D-MA) -- EMPLOYMENT NONDISCRIMINATION ACT OF 1996 (SENATE FAILED TO PASS S. 2056, TO PROHIBIT EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

49 yea · 50 nayBill Defeated1 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 5 nay
Republican6 yea · 45 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2056 ↗

Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 1996

Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — 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 “Broaden protections”

    model(0.95): Prohibiting employment discrimination expands civil rights protections.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

  • LGBTQ PolicyA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”

    model(0.95): Prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, expanding LGBTQ protections.

    Tagged by: keyword:sexual orientation

    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 (49)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (1)

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