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
|