Senate Roll Call 487, 108th Congress · March 2, 2004
To expand the definition of armor piercing ammunition and to require the Attorney General to promulgate standards for the uniform testing of projectiles against body armor.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act
Policy area: Law — 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 restrictions”
model(0.95): Expanding the definition of armor-piercing ammunition increases restrictions on firearms and ammo.
Tagged by: keyword:ammunition
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (34)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Barbara Boxer
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Jon Stevens Corzine
- Mark Dayton
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson
- Jack Reed
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ron Wyden
Nay (63)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Saxby Chambliss
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Byron L. Dorgan
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Peter G. Fitzgerald
- William H. Frist
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Zell Bryan Miller
- Lisa Murkowski
- Ben Nelson
- Don Nickles
- Mark L. Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- James M. Talent
- Craig Thomas
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (3)
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- John Reid EdwardsDid not vote
- Tim JohnsonDid not vote
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