Senate Roll Call 489, 108th Congress · March 2, 2004
A bill to prohibit civil liability actions from being brought or continued against manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition for damages resulting from the misuse of their products by others.
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
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 rights”
model(0.95): Prohibiting civil liability lawsuits against firearm manufacturers protects gun rights.
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 (8)
Nay (90)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Saxby Chambliss
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- John Cornyn
- Jon Stevens Corzine
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Mark Dayton
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Peter G. Fitzgerald
- William H. Frist
- Bob Graham
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Trent Lott
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Zell Bryan Miller
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Don Nickles
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Richard J. Santorum
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- James M. Talent
- Craig Thomas
- John W. Warner
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (2)
- John Reid EdwardsDid not vote
- Tim JohnsonDid not vote
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