VOTES IN SENATE

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Votes on Assistance to Democratic Opposition in Nicaragua (100th Congress), 24851 [17OC]

Recorded

Act for Better Child Care Services (S. 5): Bentsen amendment, 13013 [22JN]

———Dodd motion to table Wilson amendment (rate of payment for child care providers), 13052 [22JN]

———Dole amendment (perfecting), 12992 [22JN]

———Dole amendment (replace tax credit for health insurance premiums with increase in earned income tax credit), 13343 [23JN]

———Heinz amendment (replace tax credit for health insurance premiums with increase in dependent care tax credit), 13346 [23JN]

———Mitchell amendment (substitute), 12992 [22JN]

———Mitchell motion to table Helms amendment (limit financial assistance for sectarian purposes unseverable), 13341 [23JN]

———Mitchell motion to table Wilson amendment (permit States to use certain assistance to offer child care tax credits), 13349 [23JN]

———Roth amendment (child care earnings), 13019 [22JN]

Alcee L. Hastings impeachment: article I, 25330 [20OC]

———article II, 25330 [20OC]

———article III, 25331 [20OC]

———article IV, 25331 [20OC]

———article V, 25331 [20OC]

———article VI, 25332 [20OC]

———article VII, 25332 [20OC]

———article VIII, 25333 [20OC]

———article IX, 25333 [20OC]

———article XVI, 25334 [20OC]

———article XVII, 25335 [20OC]

———defendant's motion to dismiss articles I through XV, 4532 [16MR]

———defendant's motion to dismiss article XVII, 4533 [16MR]

Americans With Disabilities Act (S. 933): Boschwitz amendment (judicial determination on alleged discrimination of the disabled), 19851 [7SE]

———Hatch motion (waiver of Budget Act), 19846 [7SE]

Appropriations (H.J. Res. 407): continuing, 22316 [28SE]

Appropriations (H.J. Res. 423): further continuing, 25954 [25OC]

Appropriations (H.R. 2072): Byrd motion to table Biden amendment (taxation of alcohol and tobacco products, 10588 [1JN]

———Byrd motion to table D'Amato appeal of Budget Act ruling, 10561 [1JN]

———Byrd motion to table Specter motion (Budget Act waiver), 10534 [1JN]

———Dodd motion to table Coats amendment (U.S. policy on Panama), 10550 [1JN]

———Graham amendment (restoration of Eastern Airlines to full operation), 10568 [1JN]

———Hatfield motion to table Wilson motion (recommit), 10591 [1JN]

———Kasten motion to table Kasten amendment (employee benefit taxation), 10946 [6JN]

———Kasten motion (waive Congressional Budget Act), 10949 [6JN]

———Lautenberg motion to table Helms amendment (State governments involvement with South African businesses), 10946 [6JN]

———McCain motion to table Mitchell amendment (medicare catastrophic coverage), 11109 [7JN]

———Mitchell amendment to Kasten amendment (employee benefit plans), 10947 [6JN]

Armed Forces retirement pay of members convicted of an offense (S. 1816): protect certain, 27026 [2NO]

Bahamas certification under Foreign Assistance Act (S.J. Res. 100): disapprove, 8774 [10MY]

Baker, James A., III: confirmation as Sec. of State, 456 [25JA]

Bennett, William J.: confirmation as Director of Office of National Drug Control Policy, 3940 [9MR]

Boskin, Michael J.: confirmation as member of the Council of Economic Advisers, 1432 [2FE]

Budget (H.R. 3299): reconciliation, 24605 [13OC]

Burt, Richard R.: nomination as Ambassador during tenure as Chief Negotiator on Strategic Nuclear Arms, 11696 [14JN]

California earthquake (S. Res. 197): assistance without increasing the Federal deficit, 25960 [25OC]

Capital gains tax for noncorporate taxpayers (H.R. 3628): Coats motion (waive Budget Act), 28103 [9NO]

———motion to close debate on Packwood amendment (substitute), 28695 [14NO]

———Packwood amendment (close further debate), 29112 [15NO]

Central America bipartisan accord (H.R. 1750): implement, 6546 [13AP]

Central America bipartisan accord (S. 760): Armstrong amendment (Sandinista's democratization reforms), 6495 [13AP]

———Helms amendment (full implementation), 6536 [13AP]

———Helms amendment (nonlethal assistance to Nicaraguan Contras), 6535 [13AP]

———Wallop amendment (democratic activities in Nicaragua), 6512 [13AP]

Cheney, Dick: confirmation as Sec. of Defense, 4760 [17MR]

Committees of the Senate biennial expenditures (S. Res. 66): Ford motion to table Helms amendment (committee funding levels), 2943 [28FE]

———Ford motion to table Wilson amendment (Senate postal mailings), 2943 [28FE]

Comprehensive Uranium Act (S. 83): enact, 15459 [20JY]

Congressional budget (H. Con. Res. 106): conference report, 9775 [18MY]

Congressional budget (S. Con. Res. 30): Exon amendment (deficit reduction negotiations), 7911 [3MY]

———Hollings amendment (freezing budget outlays), 8263 [4MY]

———Kohl motion (recommit), 8273 [4MY]

———Mitchell motion to table Simon amendment (education, training, social services), 7950 [3MY]

———Specter amendment (prison funding), 7931 [3MY]

Darman, Richard G.: confirmation as Director of OMB, 456 [25JA]

Day care quality and availability (S. 5): Bentsen amendment (supplemental earned income credit for families with young children), 13310 [23JN]

Dept. of Defense appropriations (H.R. 2461): conference report, 29143 [15NO]

Dept. of Defense appropriations (H.R. 3072): Byrd amendment, 29726 [17NO]

———Conrad amendment (troop reduction in Europe), 22366 [28SE]

———Cranston amendment (B-2 stealth bomber), 29735 [17NO]

———Heflin amendment (strategic defense initiative), 22337 [28SE]

———Leahy amendment (B-2 stealth bomber funding), 21661 [26SE]

———making, 22409 [28SE]

———Metzenbaum amendment (troop reduction in Europe), 22368 [28SE]

———Mitchell motion (table Helms amendment on the National Endowment for the Arts funding guidelines), 22396 [28SE]

———Nunn amendment (Commission on Base Realignment and Closure), 21619 [26SE]

———Specter amendment (multilateral antinarcotic efforts), 22310 [28SE]

———Stevens amendment to Bumpers amendment (relations with Korea), 21678 [26SE]

———Warner amendment to Inouye amendment (conventional forces funding), 21647 [26SE]

Dept. of Defense appropriations (S. 1352): Bingaman motion to table Glenn amendment, 17414 [1AU]

———cloture on Nunn motion to close debate, 17602 [2AU]

———Cohen amendment (B-2 stealth bomber procurement), 17371 [1AU]

———enact, 16037 [25JY], 17695 [2AU]

———Exon motion to table Levin amendment (MX missile rail garrison program), 17371 [1AU]

———Johnston amendment (limit appropriations for the strategic defense initiative program), 16664 [27JY]

———Kennedy amendment (child care services for military families), 16886 [31JY]

———McCain motion to table McConnell amendment, 17398 [1AU]

———Mitchell-Dole amendment (condemn execution of William R. Higgins in Lebanon), 16885 [31JY]

———motion to table Kennedy amendment (prohibit Special Isotope Separation Plant funding), 16886 [31JY]

———motion to table Lott amendment (active duty service requirements for military service academies), 17648 [2AU]

———Nunn amendment (additional procurement of missiles), 15894 [24JY]

———Nunn motion to table Bond amendment, 17599 [2AU]

———Warner motion to table Symms amendment, 17392 [1AU]

Dept. of Defense appropriations for military construction (H.R. 3012): making, 20608 [15SE]

Dept. of State, USIA, and Board for International Broadcasting appropriations (S. 1160): Armstrong amendment (political asylum for Chinese nationals), 15489 [20JY]

———Byrd amendment (treatment of Turkish minority in Bulgaria), 15039 [18JY]

———Dole amendment (situation in Lebanon), 15260 [19JY]

———Gore amendment (Dept. of State political appointments), 15042 [18JY]

———Gore amendment (perfecting nature), 15196 [19JY]

———Graham amendment (Soviet military assistance to Central America), 15529 [20JY]

———Helms amendment (Moscow Embassy provisions), 15598 [20JY]

———Helms amendment (contact with Manuel A. Noriega by U.S. officials), 15041 [18JY]

———Lautenberg amendment (immigration categories for Soviet and Vietnamese nationals), 15530 [20JY]

———Lott amendment (perfecting nature), 15235 [19JY]

———Mack amendment (U.S. policy toward Cuba), 15197 [19JY]

———Mitchell amendment, 14737 [14JY]

———Mitchell amendment (PLO terrorist activities), 15507 [20JY]

———Mitchell motion to table Grassley amendment (PLO terrorist activities), 15505 [20JY]

———Moynihan amendment (soliciting or diverting funds for prohibited activities), 15028 [18JY]

———Pell amendment to Murkowski (economic assistance to Kampuchea), 15556 [20JY]

———Pell motion (table DeConcini amendment on Mexico), 15216 [19JY]

———Pell motion to table Mack amendment (U.S. trade with Cuba), 15489 [20JY]

———Robb amendment to Murkowski amendment (economic assistance to Kampuchea), 15561 [20JY]

———Wilson amendment (U.N. status as sponsor for an Arab-Israeli conference), 15598 [20JY]

Dept. of the Interior appropriations (H.R. 2788): Bumpers motion to table McClure amendment (restrictions on vessels transporting petroleum), 16275 [26JY]

———conference report, 23920 [7OC]

———Fowler amendment (Forest Service budget), 16298 [26JY]

———Helms amendment (National Endowment for the Arts funding guidelines), 23924 [7OC]

———McClure motion to table Fowler amendment (Forest Service budget), 16298 [26JY]

Dept. of Transportation appropriations (H.R. 3015): Byrd amendment (additional funding for drug programs), 22117 [27SE]

———cloture motion, 20457 [14SE]

———Coats amendment (voluntary random testing of students participating in certain events, 22130 [27SE]

———making, 22141 [27SE]

———overturn ruling of the Chair on committee amendment (smoking on airplanes), 20463 [14SE]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary appropriations (H.R. 2991): Bingaman motion to table Shelby amendment (prohibit use of funds for counting illegal aliens), 22527 [29SE]

———Fowler amendment (National Endowment for the Arts funding guidelines), 22501 [29SE]

———Helms amendment to conference report (People's Republic of China sanctions), 26733 [1NO]

———Hollings motion (waive section relative to Japanese American reparation payments), 22512 [29SE]

———Hollings motion to table Specter amendment (holding Federal inmates after conviction), 22515 [29SE]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, Education appropriations (H.R. 2990): Boxer motion to recede from disagreement with Senate amendment (distribution of sterile needles), 24064 [11OC]

———conference report, 25270 [19OC]

———Cranston amendment (acquired immune deficiency syndrome education programs), 21233 [21SE]

———germaneness of committee amendment (child care programs), 21267 [21SE]

———Helms amendment (Federal funding for needle and bleach distribution), 21243 [21SE]

———Helms amendment (notification of spouses of acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients), 21255 [21SE]

———Humphrey amendment (education on homosexuality), 21258 [21SE]

———making, 21665 [26SE]

———Mitchell motion to table Nickles amendment (child care programs), 21267 [21SE]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, Education appropriations (H.R. 3566): Helms amendment, 29338 [16NO]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD appropriations (H.R. 2916): authorizing, 22319 [28SE]

———conference report, 26409 [27OC]

——Mikulski motion to table Nickles amendment (Federal Housing Authority mortgage insurance program), 20843 [19SE]

———Mikulski motion to table Symms amendment (underground storage financial assurance regulations), 20862 [19SE]

———motion to table Nickles amendment (FHA mortgage insurance program modifications), 20825 [19SE]

———motion to table Nickles amendment (permit welfare housing tenants to perform repair activities on public housing projects), 20807 [19SE]

———reconsideration of tabling of Nickles amendment (FHA mortgage insurance program modifications), 20825 [19SE]

Derwinski, Edward J.: confirmation as Sec. of Veterans Affairs, 3299 [2MR]

District of Columbia appropriations (H.R. 3026): making, 20517 [14SE]

Dole, Elizabeth H.: confirmation as Sec. of Labor, 456 [25JA]

Eastern Airlines dispute with collective bargaining units (H.R. 1231): close debate on Mitchell substitute amendment, 26119 [26OC]

Eastern Airlines' Presidential emergency board to investigate dispute with collective bargaining units (H.R. 1231): cloture motion, 22900 [3OC]

———Mitchell amendment (substitute), 26160 [26OC]

El Salvador (S. Res. 217): condemnation of violence, 31259 [21NO]

Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (S. 774): enact, 7179 [19AP]

———Garn motion (to waive Congressional Budget Act provisions), 6953 [18AP]

———Garn motion to table Nickles amendment, 6953 [18AP]

———Graham amendment (Office of Savings Association chairman), 7119 [19AP]

———Graham motion (to waive Congressional Budget Act provisions), 6943 [18AP]

———sense of the Senate resolution, 6892 [18AP]

———table Kerrey amendment, 6898 [18AP]

Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs appropriations (H.R. 2939): Kasten amendment (assistance to El Salvador), 21058 [20SE]

———Kasten amendment (self-determination and human rights for the Baltic States), 21070 [20SE]

———Kasten motion to table committee amendment (El Salvador assistance), 21051 [20SE]

———Leahy motion (House amendment to Senate amendment), 29151 [15NO]

———Leahy motion to table Helms amendment, 21089 [20SE]

———making, 21663 [26SE]

———Mikulski motion to table Kasten amendment (Chinese mandatory abortion policy), 21027 [20SE]

———Mitchell motion to reconsider motion to table Kasten amendment (Chinese mandatory abortion policy), 21027 [20SE]

———motion to table Lugar amendment, 21081 [20SE]

———reconsideration of tabling Kasten amendment (Chinese mandatory abortion policy), 21028 [20SE]

———ruling of the Chair on Shelby amendment, 29170 [15NO]

———ruling of the chair on Johnston point of order, 21083 [20SE]

Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs appropriations (H.R. 3743): Leahy amendment (assistance to El Salvador), 30519 [20NO]

FSX aircraft coproduction with Japan (S.J. Res. 113): Dixon amendment (prohibit export of FSX technoogy), 9205 [16MY]

———Dixon amendment to Byrd amendment (congressional involvement), 9216 [16MY]

———veto, 20284 [13SE]

Government Ethics Reform Act (H.R. 3660): cloture motion on the Mitchell/Dole substitute amendment, 29678 [17NO]

———Helms motion (postpone further consideration), 29678 [17NO]

———Mitchell amendment (substitute), 29706 [17NO]

———Mitchell motion to table Helms amendment (congressional pay), 29689 [17NO]

———Mitchell motion to table Helms amendment (use of campaign funds upon retirement), 29686 [17NO]

———Mitchell motion to waive Budget Act, 29701 [17NO]

Gregg, Donald P.: nomination to be Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, 20047 [12SE]

Hecht, Chic: nomination to be Ambassador to the Bahamas: confirmed, 14140 [11JY]

Hills, Carla A.: confirmation as U.S. Trade Representative, 1239 [31JA]

Immigration Act (S. 358): Boschwitz (immigration level and preference), 14558 [13JY]

———Bumpers amendment (employment creation visa category), 14293 [12JY]

———Chafee amendment (stay of deportation for certain immigrants), 14285 [12JY]

———enact, 14568 [13JY]

———Exon amendment (Federal aid programs for illegal aliens), 14525 [13JY]

———Hatch amendment (family preference), 14312 [12JY]

———Helms amendment (business-sponsored immigrants), 14539 [13JY]

———Helms amendment (substitute), 14271 [12JY]

———Mitchell amendment (Chinese nationals), 14128 [11JY]

———Moynihan point of order (census relative to citizenship), 14553 [13JY]

———Shelby amendment (reapportionment of the House of Representatives relative to number of illegal aliens), 14550 [13JY]

———Simpson amendment (knowledge of the English language), 14525 [13JY]

———Specter amendment (business-sponsored immigrants), 14539 [13JY]

Intelligence Authorization Act (S. 1324): Hollings amendment (inspector general provisions), 27644 [7NO]

Journal: question of approval, 7093 [19AP]

Kemp, Jack: confirmation as Sec. of HUD, 1432 [2FE]

Legislative branch appropriations (H.R. 3014): making, 19863 [7SE]

———Stevens motion to table Wilson amendment (franked mailings), 28058 [9NO]

———Wilson amendment (mailing to constituents), 19822 [7SE]

Lujan, Manuel, Jr.: confirmation as Sec. of the Dept. of the Interior, 1432 [2FE]

Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday Commission (H.R. 1385): extend, 7795 [2MY]

Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday Commission (S. 431): Helms amendment (delete Commission appropriations), 7776 [2MY]

———Helms amendment (prohibit certain educational activities), 7789 [2MY]

———Helms amendment (prohibit from engaging in lobbying activities), 7789 [2MY]

———Nunn amendment (subject to Federal Advisory Committee Act provisions), 7792 [2MY]

———Helms amendment (2-year extension of Commission), 7776 [2MY]

Medicare catastrophic illness coverage (S. 1726): Domenici motion (Congressional Budget Act waiver), 23759 [6OC]

———Durenberger amendment (substitute), 23793 [6OC]

———Graham amendment (substitute), 23771 [6OC]

———implement, 23829 [6OC]

———Kennedy amendment (substitute), 23766 [6OC]

———motion to commit, 23778 [6OC]

———Riegle amendment (substitute), 23804 [6OC]

———Roth amendment (repeal certain provisions), 23820 [6OC]

Minimum wage (H.R. 2), 6169 [12AP]

———conference report, 9515 [17MY]

Minimum wage (H.R. 2710): adjust, 27878 [8NO]

———Mitchell motion to table Symms amendment (small business costs), 27872 [8NO]

———Thurmond motion to table Gramm amendment (migrant and seasonal agricultural workers), 27872 [8NO]

Minimum wage (S. 4): Armstrong amendment (Social Security earnings test), 6102 [12AP]

———Boschwitz amendment (working poor families), 6119 [12AP]

———Graham amendment, 5975 [11AP]

———Hatch amendment, 5976 [11AP]

———Kasten amendment (waiver of Congressional Budget Act), 6127 [12AP]

———motion to recommit, 6161 [12AP]

———Nickles amendment (amend Government contract procedures within Davis-Bacon Act), 6148 [12AP]

———Nickles amendment (review of Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act), 6135 [12AP]

———Symms amendment (repeal or reform section 89 of the Internal Revenue Code), 6110 [12AP]

———Wallop amendment (permit employees to take compensatory time for overtime hours), 6158 [12AP]

Mosbacher, Robert A.: confirmation as Sec. of Commerce, 1239 [31JA]

National drug control policy (S. 1711): Biden motion to table Wallop amendment (drug testing for AFDC applicants), 23508 [5OC]

———Glenn motion to table McConnell amendment (airborne drug traffickers), 23492 [5OC]

———implement, 23536 [5OC]

———Nunn amendment (democracy in Panama), 23461 [5OC]

———Nunn motion to table Helms amendment (arrest of Manuel A. Noriega), 23452 [5OC]

Natural gas wellhead price controls (H.R. 1722): eliminate, 11656 [14JN]

———Johnston motion to table Bradley amendment (interstate pipelines), 11654 [14JN]

———Johnston motion to table Metzenbaum amendment (refunds to overcharged consumers), 11340 [8JN]

———Johnston motion to table Metzenbaum amendment (reinstitution of price controls in drastic situations), 11336 [8JN]

———Metzenbaum amendment (FERC authority to decontrol incentive pricing), 11500 [13JN]

———Metzenbaum amendment (pipeline pricing contracts), 11486 [13JN]

———Metzenbaum amendment (pipelines apportionment of liabilities under contract), 11498 [13JN]

———Metzenbaum amendment (prohibit passing costs of environmental violations to consumers), 11493 [13JN]

Nicaraguan elections (H.R. 3385): Adams amendment, 24854 [17OC]

———assist free and fair process, 24877 [17OC]

———cloture motion on debate, 24606 [13OC], 24836 [17OC]

———Dodd amendment, 24867 [17OC]

———Harkin amendment, 24857 [17OC]

———motion to table Harkin amendment, 24853 [17OC]

Nicaraguan Sandinista abrogation of cease-fire (S. Con. Res. 79), 26638 [31OC]

Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation Act (S. 686): Baucus motion to table Gorton amendment (liability for accidents), 18323 [3AU]

———Bentsen motion to table Johnston amendment (coastal wetlands protection), 18327 [3AU]

———enact, 18733 [4AU]

———Mitchell motion to table Wilson amendment (cap on oil spill cleanup cost liability), 18372 [3AU]

———motion to table Adams amendment (require newly built oil tankers to have double hulls), 18310 [3AU]

Panama elections (S. Res. 120): support free and fair, 8263 [4MY]

Penalties for certain major frauds against the U.S. (S. 248): Bumpers amendment (reward provisions), 5555 [5AP]

———enact, 5556 [5AP]

Penalty for the terrorist murder of U.S. nationals abroad (S. 1798) capital punishment, 26145 [26OC]

———Hatfield amendment (life imprisonment without release), 26142 [26OC]

People's Republic of China populace efforts toward democracy (H. Con. Res. 136): support, 10309 [31MY]

People's Republic of China populace efforts toward democracy (S. Res. 142): support, 10942 [6JN]

Pickering, Thomas R.: confirmation as U.N. Ambassador, 3605 [7MR]

Poland and Hungary (H.R. 3402): democracy initiative, 28696 [14NO]

———Roth amendment (IMF quota level), 28695 [14NO]

Apollo 11 lunar landing anniversary (S. Res. 156): commemorate, 15568 [20JY]

Reilly, William K.: confirmation as Administrator of the EPA, 1433 [2FE]

Skinner, Samuel K.: confirmation as Sec. of Transportation, 1239 [31JA]

Sullivan, Louis W.: confirmation as Sec. of HHS, 3124 [1MR]

Television Violence Act (S. 593): Helms amendment to committee amendment, 10309 [31MY]

Tower, John G.: nomination to be Sec. of Defense, 3927 [9MR]

Treaties on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters (Great Britain, Mexico, Canada, Belgium, Bahamas, and Thailand): ratification, 25644 [24OC]

U.S. flag desecration (H.R. 2978), 23422 [5OC], 23421 [5OC]

———Biden motion to table Wilson amendment, 23421 [5OC]

———table dole amendment, 23421 [5OC]

———Wilson amendment, 23421 [5OC]

U.S. flag desecration (S. 607), 4542 [16MR]

U.S. flag—constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (S.J. Res. 180), 25256 [19OC]

U.S. flag—Supreme Court ruling on desecration (S. Res. 151), 13004 [22JN]

Veterans' Agent Orange Exposure and Vietnam Service Benefits Act (S. 1153): motion to table, 18272 [3AU]

Walter L. Nixon, Jr., impeachment: article I, 27101 [3NO]

———article II, 27101 [3NO]

———article III, 27101 [3NO]

———Nixon motion for full Senate trial, 27101 [3NO]

———Nixon motion to dismiss article III, 27101 [3NO]

Watkins, James D.: confirmation as Sec. of Energy, 3130 [1MR]

Yeutter, Clayton: confirmation as Sec. of Agriculture, 1925 [8FE]

Zappala, Joseph: nomination to be Ambassador to Spain, 22920 [3OC]

Remarks in Senate

Explanation: Conrad, 18876 [4AU]

———Exon, 18874, 18876 [4AU]

———Ford, 18876 [4AU]

———Gore, 21267 [21SE]

———Graham, 18874 [4AU]

———Warner, 18874 [4AU]

Position on missed: Armstrong, 19909 [7SE]

———Biden, 26728 [1NO]

———Simon, 28145 [9NO]