Senate Vote 12 - On the Amendment

Description: Helms Amdt. No. 1251; To provide that it is the sense of the Senate that homosexuality should not be promoted in any manner by the Federal or State government.
Result: Rejected by a margin of 30 votes (simple majority required to pass)
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R D I Total
Yes 11 
19
8
11
 
No 32 
45 
77
45
32
 
Other*
4
2
2
 
*Includes members who did not vote or voted "present"

Complete Roll Call

Explanation available
Mistaken vote

Yes Votes (19)

Member Party State
 
William Lester Armstrong
R CO
 
John B. Breaux
D LA
 
Richard H. Bryan
D NV
 
Robert C. Byrd
D WV
 
Daniel Coats
R IN
 
Phil Gramm
R TX
 
Howell Thomas Heflin
D AL
 
Jesse Helms
R NC
 
Gordon John Humphrey
R NH
 
John Bennett Johnston
D LA
 
Trent Lott
R MS
 
Connie Mack
R FL
 
James Albertus McClure
R ID
 
Don Nickles
R OK
 
Harry Reid
D NV
 
John D. Rockefeller IV
D WV
 
Richard C. Shelby
D AL
 
Steven Douglas Symms
R ID
 
Strom Thurmond
R SC

No Votes (77)

Member Party State
 
Brockman Adams
D WA
 
Max Baucus
D MT
 
Lloyd Millard Bentsen
D TX
 
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
D DE
 
Jeff Bingaman
D NM
 
Christopher S. Bond
R MO
 
David Lyle Boren
D OK
 
Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
R MN
 
William Warren Bradley
D NJ
 
Dale Bumpers
D AR
 
Quentin Northrup Burdick
D ND
 
Conrad Burns
R MT
 
John H. Chafee
R RI
 
Thad Cochran
R MS
 
William Sebastian Cohen
R ME
 
Kent Conrad
D ND
 
Alan Cranston
D CA
 
Alfonse M. D'Amato
R NY
 
John Claggett Danforth
R MO
 
Thomas A. Daschle
D SD
 
Dennis Webster DeConcini
D AZ
 
Alan John Dixon
D IL
 
Robert Joseph Dole
R KS
 
Pete V. Domenici
R NM
 
David Ferdinand Durenberger
R MN
 
J. James Exon
D NE
 
Wendell H. Ford
D KY
 
Wyche Fowler
D GA
 
Edwin Jacob Garn
R UT
 
John H. Glenn Jr.
D OH
 
Albert Arnold Gore
D TN
 
Slade Gorton
R WA
 
Bob Graham
D FL
 
Charles E. Grassley
R IA
 
Tom Harkin
D IA
 
Orrin G. Hatch
R UT
 
Mark Odom Hatfield
R OR
 
Henry John Heinz
R PA
 
Ernest F. Hollings
D SC
 
Daniel K. Inouye
D HI
 
James M. Jeffords
R VT
 
Nancy Landon Kassebaum
R KS
 
Robert Walter Kasten
R WI
 
Edward M. Kennedy
D MA
 
J. Robert Kerrey
D NE
 
John Kerry
D MA
 
Herb Kohl
D WI
 
Frank R. Lautenberg
D NJ
 
Patrick J. Leahy
D VT
 
Joseph I. Lieberman
D CT
 
Richard G. Lugar
R IN
 
Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
D HI
 
John McCain
R AZ
 
Mitch McConnell
R KY
 
Howard Morton Metzenbaum
D OH
 
Barbara A. Mikulski
D MD
 
George John Mitchell
D ME
 
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
D NY
 
Frank H. Murkowski
R AK
 
Samuel Augustus Nunn
D GA
 
Robert William Packwood
R OR
 
Claiborne de Borda Pell
D RI
 
Larry Lee Pressler
R SD
 
David Hampton Pryor
D AR
 
Donald Wayne Riegle
D MI
 
Charles S. Robb
D VA
 
William V. Roth Jr.
R DE
 
Warren Bruce Rudman
R NH
 
James Terry Sanford
D NC
 
Paul S. Sarbanes
D MD
 
James Ralph Sasser
D TN
 
Paul Martin Simon
D IL
 
Arlen Specter
R PA
 
Ted F. Stevens
R AK
 
John W. Warner
R VA
 
Pete Wilson
R CA
 
Timothy E. Wirth
D CO

Did Not Vote (4)

Member Party State
 
Christopher J. Dodd
D CT
 
Carl Levin
D MI
 
Alan Kooi Simpson
R WY
 
Malcolm Wallop
R WY
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