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Senate Roll Call 308, 105th Congress · February 11, 1998

A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer technology for purposes of human cloning. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN, NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON THE MOTION TO PROCEED TO CONSIDERATION OF S. 1601.)

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

42 yea · 54 nayCloture Motion Rejected4 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 42 nay
Republican42 yea · 10 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1601 ↗

Human Cloning Prohibition Act

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 (0.85) Cloture on a motion to proceed to a cloning prohibition does not clearly fit criminal justice reform or punishment.

    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 (42)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (4)

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