To table the gore, TN) amendment to HR 3037, to require the fda to complete a study by june 1986 on the safety of sulfiting agents.

On Oct 16, 1985, the Senate voted 18–77 (HR 3037). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 18–32, Democrats 0–45. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 18 members voted against their own party.

During the 99th Congress (1985–1986), Ronald Reagan was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.

Yes: 18
No: 77
Did not vote: 6
Date: Oct 16, 1985

By party

Republicans18 yes · 32 no · 4 didn’t vote
Democrats0 yes · 45 no · 2 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. R-AL voted yes
William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted yes
Paula Hawkins R-FL voted yes
James Albertus Mcclure R-ID voted yes
Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted yes
Nancy Landon Kassebaum R-KS voted yes
Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD voted yes
Rudolph Eli (Rudy) Boschwitz R-MN voted yes
William Thad Cochran R-MS voted yes
Jesse Helms R-NC voted yes
John Porter East R-NC voted yes
Jacob Chic Hecht R-NV voted yes
Donald Lee Nickles R-OK voted yes
James Abdnor R-SD voted yes
William Philip (Phil) Gramm R-TX voted yes
Orrin Grant Hatch R-UT voted yes
Thomas Slade Gorton III (Slade) R-WA voted yes
Malcolm Wallop R-WY voted yes

How each senator voted: Yes

How each senator voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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