Senate Roll Call 139, 99th Congress · July 9, 1985
TO TABLE THE KENNEDY, MA) AMENDMENT TO S 49, A BILL PROTECTING FIREARMS OWNERS' CONSITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO BEAR ARM TO CONTINUE THE PROHIBITION ON INTERSTATE HANDGUN SALES. PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Firearms Owners' Protection 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) Gun control regulations do not cleanly map to punitive versus reform axis.
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 (69)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (26)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (5)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
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