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 1998

Date	Subject	Result	Conserv. Position	Hutchison Voted
1998-02-10	Satcher Nomination	Agreed To (75-23)
Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the confirmation of President Clinton's nomination of Dr. David Satcher of Tennessee to be U.S. surgeon general and assistant secretary for health in the Department of Health and Human Services.
1998-02-25	Campaign Finance Revisions [S1663]	Failed (47-50)
McConnell (R-KY) motion to table (kill) the Snowe (R-ME) amendment to the McCain (R-AZ) substitute amendment that would replace language redefining "express advocacy" with language to increase certain disclosure requirements and prohibit the use of labor or corporate money to broadcast campaign ads shortly before a primary or general election.
1998-02-25	Campaign Finance Revisions [S1663]	Failed (48-50)
McConnell (R-KY) motion to table (kill) the McCain (R-AZ) substitute amendment that would revise financing of federal political campaigns. The McCain amendment was the Senate version of the House's Shays-Meehan legislation.
1998-02-26	Campaign Finance Revisions [S1663]	Rejected (51-48)
Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the McCain (R-AZ) substitute amendment that would revise financing of federal political campaigns.
1998-03-26	Expanding Education Savings Accounts [HR2646]	Rejected (58-42)
Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the bill to allow parents, relatives or outside corporations to contribute up to a combined total of $2,000 a year of after-tax funds in tax-free savings accounts designated for educational expenses.
1998-04-01	Fiscal 1999 Budget Resolution [SCONRES86]	Rejected (38-62)
McCain (R-AZ) motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to the Lautenberg (D-NJ) point of order against the Coverdell (R-GA) amendment. Coverdell's amendment would reduce tax revenues by $195.5 billion over five years by raising the income thresholds for the 15 percent and 28 percent tax brackets.
1998-04-01	Fiscal 1999 Budget Resolution [SCONRES86]	Agreed To (51-49)
Roth (R-DE) amendment to express the sense of the Senate that the Senate Finance Committee should in 1998 report legislation that would dedicate the federal budget surplus to the establishment of Social Security "personal retirement accounts".
1998-04-22	Expanding Education Savings Accounts [HR2646]	Agreed To (52-47)
Ashcroft (R-MO) amendment to the Levin (D-MI) amendment. The Ashcroft amendment would restore the bill's savings account expansion and would prohibit the use of any federal funds for national education testing unless Congress passes explicit authorizing legislation. The Levin amendment would replace the savings account language with a provision to increase the current 20 percent lifetime tax credit on college costs to 50 percent for elementary and secondary school teachers who return to school to receive technology training.
1998-05-07	Internal Revenue Service Overhaul [HR2676]	Rejected (35-64)
Faircloth (R-NC) amendment to strike language allowing a representative of IRS employees to sit on the oversight board.
1998-05-13	National Missile Defense [S1873]	Rejected (59-41)
Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the motion to proceed to the bill that would make it U.S. policy to implement a national missile defense shield. The measure would not establish a specific time frame, but would declare a national policy to deploy a system to protect U.S. territory from a limited number of incoming missiles "as soon as is technologically possible".
1998-05-14	Fiscal 1999 Defense Authorization [S2057]	Failed (24-76)
Grams (R-MN) motion to table (kill) the Hutchinson (R-AR) amendment that would authorize the President to monitor, seize the assets of, and ban commercial fronts from operating in the United States on behalf of the Chinese army known as the People's Liberation Army (PLA). The amendment would direct the Defense Department and several law enforcement agencies to compile and publish a list of all people or organizations in the United States that are associated with or controlled by the Chinese military. It would authorize the President to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which allows the President to impose an array of sanctions in response to a foreign threat, against groups on the list without consulting Congress.
1998-05-20	Tobacco Restrictions [S1415]	Agreed To (72-26)
Kerry (D-MA) motion to table (kill) the Ashcroft (R-MO) amendment to the Kennedy (D-MA) amendment to the modified Senate Commerce Committee substitute amendment. The Ashcroft amendment would strike all provisions from the bill concerning an increase of tobacco taxes.
1998-06-17	Tobacco Restrictions [S1415]	Rejected (57-42)
Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the modified Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee substitute amendment to the bill to increase tobacco restrictions. The substitute would require the tobacco industry to pay $516 billion over 25 years for anti-smoking, education and research programs, raise taxes on cigarettes by $1.10 per pack over five years, grant authority to the FDA to regulate nicotine and impose penalties on the tobacco industry if youth smoking does not decrease by 60 percent over 10 years.
1998-06-24	Fiscal 1999 Defense Authorization [S2057]	Agreed To (65-31)
Snowe (R-ME) amenndment to the Brownback (R-KS) amendment. The Snowe amendment would replace the text of the Brownback amendment with language to prohibit the Defense Department from making any changes in its gender separation policies until a commission established in the fiscal 1998 defense authorization bill issues a report early next year.
1998-06-24	Fiscal 1999 Defense Authorization [S2057]	Agreed To (56-37)
McCain (R-AZ) motion to table (kill) the Smith (R-NH) amendment that would prohibit funding for U.S. ground troop deployment in Bosnia if both houses of Congress do not vote by March 31, 1999, on legislation that would authorize continued deployment in Bosnia.
1998-06-25	Fiscal 1999 Defense Authorization [S2057]	Rejected (44-49)
Murray (D-WA) amendment to repeal current law prohibiting overseas U.S. military hospitals and medical facilites from performing privately funded abortions for U.S. service members and their dependents.
1998-07-21	Fiscal 1999 Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations [S2260]	Agreed To (61-39)
Craig (R-ID) motion to table (kill) the Boxer (D-CA) amendment that would require all gun dealers to sell so-called trigger locks with each handgun sold. The amendment would establish civil penalties for dealers that do not comply.
1998-07-28	Credit Union Membership Rules [HR1151]	Agreed To (59-39)
D'Amato (R-NY) motion to table (kill) the Shelby (R-AL) amendment that would exempt banks with assets of less than $250 million from the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act. The act requires federal regulators to consider a bank's lending record to all areas in the community it serves when deciding whether to allow a branch, merger or other endeavor. The act has become a tool for extortion against bankers.
1998-09-01	Fiscal 1999 Foreign Operations Appropriations [S2334]	Agreed To (49-44)
Specter (R-PA) amendment that would add $28.9 million for expenses related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Preparatory Commission. The Senate has not yet ratified the test ban treaty.
1998-09-02	Fiscal 1999 Foreign Operations Appropriations [S2334]	Agreed To (74-19)
Hagel (R-NE) motion to table (kill) the Kyl (R-AZ) amendment that would replace previously passed language in the bill regarding conditions on the International Monetary Fund's use of U.S. quota resources with more restrictive language.
1998-09-09	National Missile Defense [S1873]	Rejected (59-41)
Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the motion to proceed to the bill that would make it U.S. policy to implement a national missile defense shield. The measure would not establish a specific time frame, but would declare a national policy to deploy a system to protect U.S. territory from a limited number of incoming missiles "as soon as is technologically possible".
1998-09-15	Fiscal 1999 Interior Appropriations [S2237]	Agreed To (76-22)
Gorton (R-WA) motion to table (kill) the Ashcroft (R-MO) amendment that would eliminate funding for programs and activities carried out by the National Endowment for the Arts and transfer the $100 million taken from the NEA to the National Park Service.
1998-09-18	Abortion Procedure Ban [HR1122]	Veto Sustained (64-36)
Passage, over President Clinton's Oct. 10, 1997 veto of the bill to ban a certain late-term abortion procedure, in which the physician partially delivers the fetus before completing the abortion. Anyone convicted of performing such an abortion would be subject to a fine and up to two years in prison.
1998-09-22	Transporting Minors for an Abortion [S1301]	Agreed To (55-44)
Motion to invoke cloture (this limiting debate) on the substitute amendment to the bill that would make it a federal crime for anyone other than a parent to transport a minor across state lines with the intent to obtain an abortion.
1998-09-22	Consumer Bankruptcy Revisions [S1645]	Rejected (54-45)
Lott (R-MS) motion to table the Kennedy (D-MA) amendment that would increase the minimum wage by 50 cents in 1999 and 50 cents in 2000, raising it from $5.15 an hour to $6.15 an hour.

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