Senate Roll Call 321, 105th Congress · March 6, 1998
To require that Federal surface transportation funds be used to encourage development and outreach to emerging business enterprises, including those owned by minorities and women, and to prohibit discrimination and preferential treatment based on race, color, national origin, or sex, with respect to use of those funds, in compliance with the equal protection provisions of the fifth and 14th amendments to the Constitiution. — (SENATE TABLED MCCONNELL AMENDMENT NO. 1708 TO AMENDMENT NO. 1676, TO REQUIRE THAT FEDERAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION FUNDS BE USED TO ENCOURAGE DEVELOPMENT AND OUTREACH TO EMERGING BUSINESS ENTERPRISES, INCLUDING THOSE OWNED BY MINORITIES AND WOMEN, AND TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION AND PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT BASED ON RACE, COLOR, NATIONAL ORIGIN, OR SEX, WITH RESPECT TO USE OF THOSE FUNDS, IN COMPLIANCE WITH EQUAL PROTECTION PROVISIONS OF THE FIFTH AND 14TH AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1997
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works — 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(0.90): Tabling an amendment that prohibits race-conscious contracting programs preserves existing affirmative action protections.
Tagged by: keyword:discrimination,equal protection
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 (58)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- John McCain
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Robert Torricelli
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Nay (37)
- Spencer Abraham
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Conrad Burns
- Thad Cochran
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Michael DeWine
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Tim Hutchinson
- James M. Inhofe
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- Pat Roberts
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Robert Smith
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
Not voting or present (5)
- Robert F. BennettDid not vote
- Daniel CoatsDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Jesse HelmsDid not vote
- Kay Bailey HutchisonDid not vote
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