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Roll Call Vote #165 · 102nd Congress · Session 2 · Jul 30, 1992, 6:48 PM (ET)

On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2799 to H.R. 5517 (District of Columbia Supplemental Appropriations and Rescissions and Act, 1992)

Amendment S.Amdt. 2799 (To prevent the District of Columbia from implementing a system of registration for unmarried, cohabitating homosexual, lesbian, and heterosexual couples in the Nation's Capital in order to sanction such relationships and to grant such unmarried couples certain rights and benefits traditionally reserved for couples who have entered into the legally enforceable bonds of matrimony.)

Motion to Table Failed (41-51)
41 Yea
51 Nay
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How the Parties Voted

Democrat 56 senators

34 Yea / 18 Nay

4 not voting or present

Majority position: Yea

Republican 40 senators

7 Yea / 30 Nay

3 not voting or present

Majority position: Nay

Independent 1 senator

0 Yea / 0 Nay

1 not voting or present

Independent Democrat 1 senator

0 Yea / 1 Nay

Majority position: Nay

Crossed Party Lines

Full Roll Call: How Every Senator Voted

Yea 41

Nay 51

Not Voting 8

Source: Official U.S. Senate roll call vote data (senate.gov ↗).