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Joseph Lieberman’s Senate Voting Record
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Joseph Lieberman’s
Senate Voting Record
| Bill | Vote |
2000 | |
| Require so-called 527 political groups to disclose contribution and expenditure information (Senate Vote 160) | Y |
| Extend certain tariff benefits to the nations of the Caribbean, Central America and sub-Saharan Africa (Senate Vote 98) | Y |
1999 | |
| Remove barriers among banking, securities and insurance industries (Senate Vote 354) | Y |
| Support Roe v. Wade right to abortion (Senate Vote 337) | Y |
| Limit debate on banning "soft money" campaign contributions (Senate Vote 331) | Y |
| Ratify Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (Senate Vote 325) | Y |
| Support study of automotive fuel efficiency standards (Senate Vote 275) | Y |
| Kill amendment to ban all trade sanctions on food and medicine (Senate Vote 251) | Y |
| Reduce federal taxes by $792 billion over 10 years (Senate Vote 247) | N |
| Approve GOP patient protections and health-related tax incentives (Senate Vote 210) | N |
| Kill amendment to prohibit deployment of ground troops to Kosovo without congressional approval (Senate Vote 145) | Y |
| Require background checks on sales at gun shows (Senate Vote 134) | Y |
| Kill amendment to authorize state grants to hire teachers and reduce class size (Senate Vote 41) | N |
| Remove President Clinton — Article I, grand jury perjury (Senate Vote 17) | N |
| Remove President Clinton — Article II, obstruction of justice (Senate Vote 18) | N |
| Dismiss impeachment charges against President Clinton (Senate Vote 4) | Y |
1998 | |
| Clear $500 billion-plus omnibus spending bill (Senate Vote 314) | Y |
| Ban "partial-birth" abortions (Senate Vote 277) | N |
| Kill proposal to limit president’s ability to impose economic sanctions (Senate Vote 201) | Y |
| Prohibit same-sex military barracks and basic training (Senate Vote 180) | N |
| Approve tax-sheltered education savings accounts (Senate Vote 169) | Y |
| Limit debate on bill to increase tobacco restrictions (Senate Vote 161) | Y |
| Expand visa program for skilled workers (Senate Vote 141) | Y |
| Limit NATO expansion to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic (Senate Vote 112) | N |
| Provide $17.9 billion for the International Monetary Fund (Senate Vote 44) | Y |
| Limit debate on McCain-Feingold plan to overhaul campaign finance laws (Senate Vote 16 | Y |
| Ban human cloning (Senate Vote 10) | N |
1997 | |
| Authorize president to make fast-track trade pacts (Senate Vote 292) | Y |
| Overturn line-item vetoes of 36 military projects (Senate Vote 287) | N |
| Create educational savings accounts (Senate Vote 288) | Y |
| Support campaign finance overhaul (Senate Vote 267) | Y |
| Earmark most NEA funds for state block grants (Senate Vote 246) | N |
| Approve means-based testing for Medicare insurance premiums (Senate Vote 113) | Y |
| Approve GOP budget to cut spending and taxes (Senate Vote 92) | Y |
| Ban "partial birth" abortions (Senate Vote 71) | N |
| Allow workers to choose between overtime and compensatory time (Senate Vote 68) | N |
| Approve chemical weapons ban (Senate Vote 51) | Y |
| Approve interim nuclear waste repository (Senate Vote 42) | N |
| Approve balanced-budget constitutional amendment (Senate Vote 24) | N |
1996 | |
| Ban most partial-birth abortions (Senate Vote 301) | N |
| Prohibit job discrimination based on sexual orientation (Senate Vote 281) | Y |
| Replace federal welfare guarantee with block grants to the states (Senate Vote 262) | Y |
| Establish a temporary nuclear waste storage site in Nevada (Senate Vote 259) | N |
| Exempt small businesses from minimum wage increase (Senate Vote 183) | N |
| Consider a bill overhauling campaign finance laws (Senate Vote 168) | Y |
| Approve a constitutional amendment to require a balanced federal budget (Senate Vote 158) | N |
| Bipartisan plan to balance the budget in seven years (Senate Vote 150) | Y |
| Block a plan to allow tax-deductible medical savings accounts (Senate Vote 72) | Y |
| Grant the president line-item veto authority (Senate Vote 56) | Y |
| Limit punitive damages in product liability cases (Senate Vote 46) | Y |
| Strengthen the trade embargo against Cuba (Senate Vote 22) | Y |
| Replace farm price supports with seven years of annual fixed payments (Senate Vote 19) | Y |
| Replace farm price supports with seven years of annual fixed payments (Senate Vote 19) | Y |
| Deregulate telecommunications industry (Senate Vote 8) | Y |
1995 | |
| Restrict class-action securities lawsuits (Senate Vote 612) | Y |
| Approve constitutional amendment prohibiting flag burning (Senate Vote 600) | N |
| Ban an abortion technique that opponents call ‘partial birth’ abortion (Senate Vote 596) | N |
| Approve budget-reconciliation package (Senate Vote 556) | N |
| Approve federal welfare overhaul (Senate Vote 443) | Y |
| Approve fiscal 1996 Defense Appropriations (Senate Vote 397) | Y |
| Require Packwood hearings to be held publicly (Senate Vote 352) | Y |
| Exclude certain items from gift ban (Senate Vote 339) | N |
| End Bosnian arms embargo (Senate Vote 331) | Y |
| Approve lobbyist reporting requirements (Senate Vote 328) | Y |
| Approve federal regulatory overhaul (Senate Vote 315) | N |
| Confirm Dr. Henry W. Foster Jr. as Surgeon General (Senate Vote 273) | Y |
| Repeal federal speed limits (Senate Vote 270) | N |
| Approve deregulation of telecommunications industries (Senate Vote 268) | N |
| Approve cap on punitive damages in product liability cases (Senate Vote 152) | Y |
| Approve presidential line-item veto (Senate Vote 115) | Y |
| Approve balanced-budget constitutional amendment (Senate Vote 98) | N |
1994 | |
| Waive Senate budget rules to allow GATT vote (Senate Vote 328) | Y |
| Invoke cloture on California desert protection bill (Senate Vote 326) | Y |
| Invoke cloture on lobbying disclosure and gift ban bill (Senate Vote 322) | N |
| Invoke cloture on bill to set voluntary campaign spending caps (Senate Vote 314) | Y |
| Waive Senate budget rules to allow crime bill vote (Senate Vote 293) | Y |
| Approve fiscal 1996 Defense Appropriations (Senate Vote 397) | Y |
| Permit new regulations to require the use of ethanol in gasoline (Senate Vote 255) | N |
| End U.S. arms embargo on Bosnia (Senate Vote 181) | Y |
| Invoke cloture on bill to limit product liability (Senate Vote 170) | Y |
| Bar military action in Haiti without Congress’ authorization (Senate Vote 172) | N |
| Require risk assessments of some new EPA regulations (Senate Vote 117) | Y |
| Safeguard access to abortion clinics (Senate Vote 112) | Y |
| Passage of budget resolution preserving spending levels (Senate Vote 113) | Y |
| Approve balanced-budget constitutional amendment (Senate Vote 48) | N |
| Kill amendment to reduce budget spending by $94 billion (Senate Vote 35) | N |
| Approve national education standards (Senate Vote 34) | Y |
| End U.S. trade embargo on Vietnam (Senate Vote 5) | Y |
1993 | |
| Approve five-day waiting period for handgun purchases (Senate Vote 394) | Y |
| Invoke cloture on California desert protection bill (Senate Vote 326) | Y |
| Approve NAFTA (Senate Vote 395) | Y |
| Ban certain semiautomatic assault weapons (Senate Vote 375) | Y |
| Limit subpoena of Packwood diaries to ethics related entries (Senate Vote 347) | N |
| Cut U.S. military funding in Somalia after troop withdrawal (Senate Vote 314) | Y |
| Allow federal abortion funding (Senate Vote 290) | Y |
| Provide foreign aid including aid for the former Soviet Union (Senate Vote 287) | Y |
| Bar higher grazing fees and other public land reforms (Senate Vote 266) | N |
| Allow the president to determine if gays serve in the military (Senate Vote 250) | Y |
| Reduce spending for the Ballistic Missile Defense program (Senate Vote 251) | N |
| Authorize funds for the National Service program (Senate Vote 231) | Y |
| Confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court (Senate Vote 232) | Y |
| Pass Clinton budget raising taxes and cutting spending (Senate Vote 190) | Y |
| Provide incentives to candidates to limit campaign spending (Senate Vote 158) | Y |
| Move to vote on President Clinton’s economic stimulus plan (Senate Vote 105) | Y |
| Approve budget increasing taxes and reducing deficit (Senate Vote 83) | Y |
| Approve national "motor voter" registration bill (Senate Vote 38) | Y |
| Require unpaid family and medical leave (Senate Vote 11) | Y |
| Support president’s right to lift military gay ban (Senate Vote 9) | Y |
1992 | |
| Reauthorize water projects in Utah and California (Senate Vote 267) | Y |
| Override veto of cable TV rate cap bill (Senate Vote 264) | Y |
| Allow abortion counseling at federally-funded clinics (Senate Vote 254) | Y |
| Provide $26.5 billion for foreign assistance (Senate Vote 256) | Y |
| Reduce enterprise zones and IRA deductions (Senate Vote 240) | N |
| Override family and medical leave veto (Senate Vote 232) | Y |
| Impose 9-month moratorium on nuclear testing (Senate Vote 217) | Y |
| Oppose deeper cuts in spending for SDI (Senate Vote 182) | N |
| Provide extended unemployment benefits (Senate Vote 145) | Y |
| Reject grace period before suspending Russian aid (Senate Vote 139) | Y |
| Override campaign finance reform veto (Senate Vote 88) | Y |
| Reject lifting fetal tissue research ban (Senate Vote 61) | N |
| Allow shifting funds from defense to domestic programs (Senate Vote 56) | N |
| Reject stricter nuclear power licensing procedures (Senate Vote 20) | N |
| Approve school-choice pilot program (Senate Vote 5) | Y |
1991 | |
| Authorize $500 million to dismantle Soviet nuclear weapons (Senate Vote 274) | Y |
| Confirm Robert Gates as CIA director (Senate Vote 243) | Y |
| Invoke cloture on consideration of energy bill (Senate Vote 242) | N |
| Pass Civil Rights Act of 1991 (Senate Vote 238) | Y |
| Confirm Clarence Thomas to Supreme Court (Senate Vote 220) | N |
| Provide 12 weeks of family leave for workers (Senate Vote 215) | Y |
| Provide up to 20 additional weeks of unemployment benefits (Senate Vote 213) | Y |
| Transfer $3.1 billion to domestic programs from defense (Senate Vote 182) | N |
| Kill amendment to allow women to fly as combat pilots (Senate Vote 167) | N |
| Kill amendment to prevent deployment of anti-missile system (Senate Vote 169) | Y |
| Tie China’s most-favored trade status to human-rights progress (Senate Vote 142) | Y |
| Raise senators’ pay and ban honoraria (Senate Vote 133) | Y |
| Appropriate $509 million for superconducting super collider (Senate Vote 121) | Y |
| Approve waiting period for handgun purchases (Senate Vote 115) | Y |
| Lower federal share of costs for interstate-highway repair (Senate Vote 97) | Y |
| Authorize use of force in Persian Gulf (Senate Vote 2) | Y |
1990 | |
| Oppose prohibition of certain semiautomatic weapons (Senate Vote 103) | N |
| Confirm Robert Gates as CIA director (Senate Vote 243) | Y |
| Support constitutional amendment on flag desecration (Senate Vote 128) | N |
| Oppose requiring parental notice for minors’ abortions (Senate Vote 266) | Y |
| Halt production of B-2 stealth bomber at 13 planes (Senate Vote 272) | Y |
| Approve budget that cut spending and raised revenues (Senate Vote 292) | N |
| Pass civil rights bill over Bush veto (Senate Vote 304) | Y |
1989 | |
| Oppose reduction of SDI funding (Senate Vote 148) | N |
| Kill amendment to allow women to fly as combat pilots (Senate Vote 167) | N |
| Oppose barring federal funds for "obscene" art (Senate Vote 216) | Y |
| Allow vote on capital gains tax cut (Senate Vote 295) | Y |