Kay Bailey Hutchison

[Congressional biography]

Born: July 22, 1943 in Galveston, TX

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Key Senate Vote Data for Kay Bailey Hutchison in 1994

Date	Subject	Result	Conserv. Position	Hutchison Voted
1994-01-28	Fiscal 1994-95 State Department Authorization [S1281]	Agreed To (60-33)
Kerry (D-MA) motion to table (kill) the Specter (R-PA) amendment to require that bilateral and international loans to the independent states of the former Soviet Union be collateralized by petroleum products, minerals or other commodities.
1994-02-08	Goals 2000: Educate America [S1150]	Rejected (41-52)		No Vote
Coats (R-IN) amendment to authorize $30 million for six low-income school choice demonstration programs. The amendment would have allowed some poor children to attend private school at public expense.
1994-02-08	Goals 2000: Educate America [S1150]	Rejected (34-59)		No Vote
Helms (R-NC) amendment to prohibit distribution of condoms, contraceptives or drugs financed by federal aid without parental consent.
1994-03-01	Balanced-Budget Amendment [SJRES41]	Defeated (63-37)
Passage of the joint resolution to propose a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget by 2001 or the second fiscal year after ratification by three-fourths of the states, whichever is later. Congress could waive the balanced-budget requirement if three-fifths of the House and Senate approve deficit spending, or by a simple majority when a declaration of war was in effect or when there was a threat to national security. The amendment would prohibit the courts from ordering tax increases or spending cuts unless specifically authorized by Congress.
1994-03-22	Fiscal 1995 Budget Resolution [SCONRES63]	Rejected (40-59)
Harkin (D-IA) amendment to transfer $513 million from the Ballistic Missile Defense program (formerly the Strategic Defense Initiative), with $423 million going to state and local drug enforcement and $90 million to deficit reduction.
1994-03-23	Fiscal 1995 Budget Resolution [SCONRES63]	Rejected (42-58)
Domenici (R-NM) substitute amendment to cut an additional $318 billion over five years, chiefly through a $180 billion cut in non-defense discretionary spending and by using savings from Medicare and Medicaid for deficit reduction and not to finance a health care overhaul. The substitute also would have provided for a $500-per-child tax credit for families, indexed capital gains for inflation, saved $33 billion by overhauling the welfare system, created individual retirement accounts for homemakers and first-time home buyers, and increased defense spending by $18.5 billion over five years. This Republican alternative budget would have reduced the deficit to no more than $100 billion by 1999.
1994-03-24	Fiscal 1995 Budget Resolution [SCONRES63]	Rejected (32-67)
Gramm (R-TX) amendment to accept all of President Clinton's discretionary spending cuts except those to law enforcement and then freeze discretionary spending authority for the next five years, and to reject all of Clinton's discretionary spending increases. Savings would go to reduce the deficit and to double the tax exemption for dependent children. Clinton had called for cuts in the budgets of the FBI, DEA, INS and other law-enforcement agencies.
1994-03-25	Fiscal 1995 Budget Resolution [HCONRES218]	Agreed To (57-40)
Adoption of the resolution to set budget levels for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1995: budget authority, $1.537 trillion; outlays, $1.512 trillion; revenues, $1.338 trillion; and a deficit of $174 billion. The resolution called for an additional $26 billion in cuts over five years below the guidelines established in 1993 and in President Clinton's fiscal 1995 budget.
1994-03-26	Goals 2000: Educate America [HR1804]	Agreed To (63-22)
Adoption of the conference report to authorize $400 million in fiscal 1994 and such sums as necessary in fiscal 1995-98 for competitive grants for schools seeking to improve their performance, write into law national education goals, and establish standards for elementary and secondary students. This would further involve the federal government in education through a "voluntary" list of eight national skills standards and "opportunity to learn" norms, both to be established by federal boards.
1994-04-13	California Desert Protection [S21]	Passed (69-29)
Passage of the bill to designate about 7.7 million acres of California desert as wilderness and to establish the Death Valley, Joshua Tree and Mojave National Parks. This designation of desert as "wilderness" makes the land off-limits to future development and deprives property owners of their rights.
1994-04-14	Barkett Confirmation	Confirmed (61-37)
Confirmation of President Clinton's nomination of Rosemary Barkett of Florida to be U.S. circuit judge for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Barkett is notoriously weak on crime.
1994-05-05	Congressional Gift Limitations [S1935]	Rejected (34-59)
Burns (R-MT) amendment to reduce immediately the pay of members of Congress by 15 percent.
1994-05-12	Abortion Clinic Access [S636]	Agreed To (69-30)
Adoption of the conference report to establish federal criminal and civil penalties for people who use force, the threat of force or physical obstruction to block access to abortion clinics. This would make peaceful obstruction a federal crime subject to civil damage awards.
1994-05-25	Brown Nomination	Rejected (56-42)
Motion to invloke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the confirmation of President Clinton's nomination of anti-Vietnam war activist Sam W. Brown Jr. of California for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure as Head of the Delegation to the conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
1994-06-15	Airport Improvement Program Reauthorization [S1491]	Agreed To (56-44)
Daschle (D-SD) amendment to the D'Amato (R-NY) amendment, to provide for hearings into President Clinton's investment in the Whitewater development project in a manner agreed upon by the majority and minority leaders so as not to interfere with the special counsel's investigation. The D'Amato amendment would have authorized a special subcommittee of the Banking Committee to hold hearings into the circumstances surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton's commodity futures trading activites. The Daschle amendment would ensure that only the so-called "Washington phase" -- about five percent of the scandal -- would be investigated by Congress.
1994-06-23	Fiscal 1995 Defense Authorization [S2182]	Rejected (35-60)
Kempthorne (R-ID) amendment to prohibit money authorized by the bill from paying for U.S. contributions to U.N. peacekeeping operations and transfer the $300 million to accounts for training U.S. troops.
1994-07-12	Striker Replacement [S55]	Rejected (53-47)
Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the motion to proceed to the bill to prohibit employers from permanently replacing striking workers. This would have greatly increased the power of Big Labor at the expense of management and the workers they claim to represent.
1994-07-25	Fiscal 1995 Interior Appropriations [HR4602]	Agreed To (49-42)
Dodd (D-CT) motion to table (kill) the Helms (R-NC) amendment to prohibit the National Endowment for the Arts from financing any activity or work that involves human mutilation, invasive bodily procedures on human beings dead or alive, or the drawing or letting of blood. The Helms amendment would have put a stop to the spending of taxpayer dollars on such works of "art".
1994-07-27	Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization [S1513]	Rejected (47-53)
Helms (R-NC) amendment to deny federal aid to state or local school agencies that prohibit constitutionally protected voluntary prayer in public schools. The amendment would also prohibit any person from being required to participate in prayer and protect any person from having the form or content of their constitutionally protected prayer influenced.
1994-08-16	Health Care [S2351]	Agreed To (55-42)
Dodd (D-CT) amendment to the Mitchell (D-ME) substitute amendment, to require all insurance policies to cover preventative services for children, including prenatal care, well-baby care and immunization care for children and pregnant women at no additional cost by July 1, 1995, rather than by Jan. 1, 1997, as required by the Clinton bill.
1994-08-25	Omnibus Crime Bill [HR3355]	Agreed To (61-39)
Mitchell (D-ME) motion to waive the budget act with respect to the Domenici (R-NM) point of order against the Crime Conference Report for violating Section 306 of the 1974 Congressional Budget Act and encroaching on the Budget Committee's jurisdiction by establishing a trust fund not considered by the committee. The conference report would authorize $30.2 billion over six years and require that all spending authorized by the bill come from a crime trust fund realized from eliminating 270,000 federal jobs. The bill would authorize $6.9 billion for crime prevention programs, $8.8 billion for community policing programs and the hiring of 100,000 new police officers, and a $7.9 billion grant program to build state and local prisons. The bill would also ban 19 specific "assault" weapons, expand the death penalty to dozens of new federal crimes, mandate life imprisonment without parole for three-time violent felons, provide for community notification of violent sex offenders, and allow prior sex offenses to be admitted in federal trials.
1994-08-25	Omnibus Crime Bill [HR3355]	Agreed To (61-38)
Adoption of the conference report to authorize $30.2 billion over six years and to require that all spending authorized by the bill come from a crime trust fund realized from eliminating 270,000 federal jobs. The bill would authorize $6.9 billion for crime prevention programs, $8.8 billion for community policing programs and the hiring of 100,000 new police officers, and a $7.9 billion grant program to build state and local prisons. The bill would also ban 19 specific "assault" weapons, expand the death penalty to dozens of new federal crimes, mandate life imprisonment without parole for three-time violent felons, provide for community notification of violent sex offenders, allow prior sex offenses to be admitted in federal trials and require HIV testing when requested in federal rape trials.
1994-09-27	Campaign Finance Conference [S3]	Rejected (57-43)
Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the motion to request a conference with the House on the bill to establish a system for voluntary spending caps on congressional campaigns.
1994-10-04	Sarokin Nomination	Confirmed (63-35)
Confirmation of President Clinton's nomination of H. Lee Sarokin of New Jersey to be a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Law enforcement organizations and the victims' rights community strongly opposed the nomination.
1994-10-06	Lobbying Disclosure [S349]	Rejected (52-46)
Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the conference report to expand the disclosure of lobbying activities and impose new restrictions on gifts to members of Congress and their staffs. This bill would place constitutionally-dubious restrictions on the rights of grass-roots advocacy organizations to mobilize their members on behalf of their legislative interests.

Represents a "Yes" vote.   Represents a "No" vote.   Indicates that this member voted against the conservative position on a particular vote. "No vote" means that this member did not cast a vote (or voted 'Present' instead of Yes or No).