H.R. 5091, 101st Congress

Flag Protection Act of 1990

Originated in the House · Introduced Jun 20, 1990 · Government Operations and Politics

Sponsor

Jim Cooper

Latest action

Jun 21, 1990

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 179 - 236 (Roll no. 193).

CRS summary

As of Jun 20, 1990

Introduced in House

Flag Protection Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criminal penalties for: (1) destroying or damaging a U.S. flag with intent to provoke imminent violence; and (2) stealing or converting to personal use and intentionally destroying or damaging a U.S. flag belonging to the United States or belonging to another while on Federal land.

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the States should enact similar prohibitions to provide maximum protection to the U.S. flag.

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Roll-call votes

1 on record

Jun 21, 1990 · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

Full roll call

Failed (179–236)

383 of 432 recorded votes are not yet matched to a member profile.

Yea: 179 (21 D · 2 R)

Member	Party	State
TRAFICANT, James A., Jr.	—	OH
DICKS, Norman DeValois	—	WA
VALENTINE, Itimous Thaddeus (Tim), Jr.	—	NC
MAZZOLI, Romano Louis	—	KY
HAWKINS, Augustus Freeman	—	CA
YATRON, Gus	—	PA
WISE, Robert Ellsworth, Jr.	—	WV
SANGMEISTER, George Edward	—	IL
MOLLOHAN, Alan Bowlby	—	WV
THOMAS, Robert Lindsay	—	GA
FORD, Harold Eugene	—	TN
ROUKEMA, Margaret Scafati	—	NJ
DWYER, Bernard James	—	NJ
BROOKS, Jack Bascom	—	TX
MORELLA, Constance A.	—	MD
GILLMOR, Paul Eugene	—	OH
CLARKE, James McClure	—	NC
PASHAYAN, Charles, Jr.	—	CA
DARDEN, George	—	GA
FOGLIETTA, Thomas Michael	—	PA
de la GARZA, Eligio, II	—	TX
STARK, Fortney Hillman (Pete), Jr.	—	CA
TRAXLER, Jerome Bob	—	MI
UDALL, Morris King	—	AZ
TAUKE, Thomas Joseph	—	IA
LAUGHLIN, Gregory H.	—	TX
GORDON, Barton Jennings	—	TN
ANTHONY, Beryl Franklin, Jr.	—	AR
PICKLE, James Jarrell	—	TX
DONNELLY, Brian Joseph	—	MA
SCHNEIDER, Claudine	—	RI
BILBRAY, James Hubert	—	NV
BARNARD, Druie Douglas, Jr.	—	GA
KOLTER, Joseph Paul	—	PA
JOHNSTON, Harry A., II	—	FL
JACOBS, Andrew, Jr.	—	IN
CLINGER, William Floyd, Jr.	—	PA
HERTEL, Dennis Mark	—	MI
HUTTO, Earl Dewitt	—	FL
TALLON, Robert Mooneyhan, Jr.	—	SC
MINETA, Norman Y.	—	CA
MORRISON, Bruce Andrew	—	CT
GLICKMAN, Daniel Robert	—	KS
OBEY, David Ross	—	WI
BRYANT, John Wiley	—	TX
McMILLEN, Charles Thomas	—	MD
HOCHBRUECKNER, George Joseph	—	NY
CAMPBELL, Ben Nighthorse	—	CO
KENNEDY, Joseph Patrick, II	—	MA
DERRICK, Butler Carson, Jr.	—	SC
WATKINS, Wesley Wade	—	OK
MURPHY, Austin John	—	PA
BUSTAMANTE, Albert G.	—	TX
COLEMAN, Ronald D'Emory	—	TX
NATCHER, William Huston	—	KY
FAZIO, Victor Herbert, Jr.	—	CA
TANNER, John S.	—	TN
ERDREICH, Ben	—	AL
EVANS, Lane Allen	—	IL
CARR, Milton Robert	—	MI
WOLPE, Howard Eliot, III	—	MI
SIKORSKI, Gerald Edward	—	MN
JENKINS, Edgar Lanier	—	GA
GEREN, Preston M.	—	TX
BORSKI, Robert Anthony, Jr.	—	PA
SISISKY, Norman	—	VA
ROSE, Charles Grandison, III	—	NC
GRAY, William Herbert, III	—	PA
STUDDS, Gerry Eastman	—	MA
HOAGLAND, Peter J.	—	NE
MEYERS, Jan	—	KS
TORRICELLI, Robert Guy	—	NJ
LONG, Jill Lynette	—	IN
TAYLOR, Gary Eugene	—	MS
ORTIZ, Solomon P.	—	TX
BOUCHER, Frederick C.	—	VA
OBERSTAR, James Louis	—	MN
MOODY, Jim	—	WI
COYNE, William Joseph	—	PA
DORGAN, Byron Leslie	—	ND
LaFALCE, John Joseph	—	NY
LEHMAN, William	—	FL
LANTOS, Thomas Peter	—	CA
HOUGHTON, Amory, Jr.	—	NY
HALL, Tony Patrick	—	OH
JONES, Walter Beaman, Sr.	—	NC
TOWNS, Edolphus	—	NY
WHITTEN, Jamie Lloyd	—	MS
HEFNER, Willie Gathrel	—	NC
TORRES, Esteban Edward	—	CA
FORD, William David	—	MI
APPLEGATE, Douglas Earl	—	OH
PERKINS, Carl Christopher	—	KY
EARLY, Joseph Daniel	—	MA
BROWN, George Hanks	—	CO
McCURDY, David Keith	—	OK
ECKART, Dennis Edward	—	OH
MOAKLEY, John Joseph	—	MA
FLIPPO, Ronnie Gene	—	AL
GAYDOS, Joseph Matthew	—	PA
BRUCE, Terry Lee	—	IL
ANDREWS, Michael Allen	—	TX
NEAL, Stephen Lybrook	—	NC
JOHNSON, Nancy Lee	—	CT
HAMILTON, Lee Herbert	—	IN
ALEXANDER, William Vollie (Bill), Jr.	—	AR
SOLARZ, Stephen Joshua	—	NY
FROST, Jonas Martin	—	TX
KILDEE, Dale Edward	—	MI
WALGREN, Douglas	—	PA
SPRATT, John McKee, Jr.	—	SC
JONES, Ben	—	GA
PENNY, Timothy Joseph	—	MN
OAKAR, Mary Rose	—	OH
KLECZKA, Gerald Daniel	—	WI
COLLINS, Cardiss	—	IL
HARRIS, Claude, Jr.	—	AL
PATTERSON, Elizabeth J.	—	SC
GEJDENSON, Samuel	—	CT
ROWLAND, James Roy, Jr.	—	GA
BEVILL, Tom	—	AL
LEHMAN, Richard Henry	—	CA
FASCELL, Dante Bruno	—	FL
BRENNAN, Joseph Edward	—	ME
LUKEN, Thomas Andrew	—	OH
DIXON, Julian Carey	—	CA
CONDIT, Gary Adrian	—	CA
KANJORSKI, Paul E.	—	PA
BATES, Jim	—	CA
MAVROULES, Nicholas James	—	MA
ANDERSON, Glenn Malcolm	—	CA
BONIOR, David Edward	—	MI
SHARP, Philip Riley	—	IN
NOWAK, Henry James	—	NY
ESPY, Alphonso Michael	—	MS
LEACH, James Albert Smith	—	IA
JONTZ, James Prather	—	IN
BENNETT, Charles Edward	—	FL
SYNAR, Michael Lynn	—	OK
ROSTENKOWSKI, Daniel David	—	IL
LIPINSKI, William Oliver	—	IL
HENRY, Paul B.	—	MI
BROWN, George Edward, Jr.	—	CA
GEPHARDT, Richard Andrew	—	MO
ATKINS, Chester Greenough	—	MA
LLOYD, Marilyn Laird	—	TN
GIBBONS, Sam Melville	—	FL
BEILENSON, Anthony Charles	—	CA
McNULTY, Michael Robert	—	NY
HAYES, Charles Arthur	—	IL
GILMAN, Benjamin Arthur	—	NY
LANCASTER, H. Martin	—	NC
BROWDER, John Glen	—	AL
CALLAHAN, Herbert Leon	—	AL
MANTON, Thomas J.	—	NY
CHAPMAN, Jim	—	TX
Barbara Boxer	Democrat	CA
Thomas R. Carper	Democrat	DE
Bill Nelson	Democrat	FL
Richard J. Durbin	Democrat	IL
Peter J. Visclosky	Democrat	IN
Richard E. Neal	Democrat	MA
Benjamin L. Cardin	Democrat	MD
Steny H. Hoyer	Democrat	MD
John D. Dingell	Democrat	MI
Sander M. Levin	Democrat	MI
David E. Price	Democrat	NC
Frank Pallone, Jr.	Democrat	NJ
Charles E. Schumer	Democrat	NY
Eliot L. Engel	Democrat	NY
José E. Serrano	Democrat	NY
Louise McIntosh Slaughter	Democrat	NY
Nita M. Lowey	Democrat	NY
Marcy Kaptur	Democrat	OH
Ron Wyden	Democrat	OR
Tim Johnson	Democrat	SD
Jim Cooper	Democrat	TN
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen	Republican	FL
Thomas E. Petri	Republican	WI

Nay: 237 (14 R · 8 D)

Member	Party	State
STALLINGS, Richard Howard	—	ID
SLATTERY, James Charles	—	KS
PEASE, Donald James	—	OH
MICHEL, Robert Henry	—	IL
MILLER, Clarence E.	—	OH
McCOLLUM, Ira William, Jr.	—	FL
McHUGH, Matthew Francis	—	NY
HYDE, Henry John	—	IL
BUECHNER, John William	—	MO
MARTIN, David O'Brien	—	NY
PARRIS, Stanford E.	—	VA
RINALDO, Matthew John	—	NJ
GEKAS, George William	—	PA
BARTLETT, Harry Stephen	—	TX
SKAGGS, David Evans	—	CO
LUKENS, Donald Edgar	—	OH
McDADE, Joseph Michael	—	PA
COLEMAN, Earl Thomas	—	MO
NIELSON, Howard Curtis	—	UT
MCCRERY, James O., III	—	LA
STUMP, Robert Lee	—	AZ
CHANDLER, Rodney Dennis	—	WA
BALLENGER, Cass	—	NC
PICKETT, Owen Bradford	—	VA
COX, Charles Christopher	—	CA
HUGHES, William John	—	NJ
FRENZEL, William Eldridge	—	MN
PARKER, Michael	—	MS
PORTER, John Edward	—	IL
MRAZEK, Robert Jan	—	NY
HORTON, Frank Jefferson	—	NY
GONZÁLEZ, Henry B.	—	TX
OLIN, James R.	—	VA
HAYES, James Allison	—	LA
BUNNING, James Paul David	—	KY
GRANDY, Frederick Lawrence	—	IA
STANGELAND, Arlan Ingehart	—	MN
PANETTA, Leon Edward	—	CA
GUARINI, Frank Joseph, Jr.	—	NJ
SCHROEDER, Patricia Scott	—	CO
KASICH, John Richard	—	OH
ARMEY, Richard Keith	—	TX
BYRON, Beverly Barton Butcher	—	MD
OWENS, Major Robert Odell	—	NY
SCHIFF, Steven Harvey	—	NM
STAGGERS, Harley Orrin, Jr.	—	WV
SPENCE, Floyd Davidson	—	SC
MONTGOMERY, Gillespie V.	—	MS
DORNAN, Robert Kenneth	—	CA
CAMPBELL, Thomas J.	—	CA
RUSSO, Martin Anthony	—	IL
PAYNE, Lewis Franklin, Jr.	—	VA
DANNEMEYER, William Edwin	—	CA
FRANK, Barney	—	MA
LEVINE, Meldon Edises	—	CA
SCHAEFER, Daniel	—	CO
COMBEST, Larry Ed	—	TX
OWENS, Douglas Wayne	—	UT
SAWYER, Thomas Charles	—	OH
UNSOELD, Jolene	—	WA
HANSEN, James Vear	—	UT
ARCHER, William Reynolds, Jr.	—	TX
ANNUNZIO, Frank	—	IL
COURTER, James Andrew	—	NJ
WASHINGTON, Craig Anthony	—	TX
WEBER, John Vincent	—	MN
GUNDERSON, Steven Craig	—	WI
FAWELL, Harris W.	—	IL
SKEEN, Joseph Richard	—	NM
SOLOMON, Gerald Brooks Hunt	—	NY
KENNELLY, Barbara Bailey	—	CT
MARTÍNEZ, Matthew G.	—	CA
SHAYS, Christopher H.	—	CT
SMITH, Peter P.	—	VT
McCLOSKEY, Francis Xavier	—	IN
WHITTAKER, Robert Russell	—	KS
SAVAGE, Gus	—	IL
CROCKETT, George William, Jr.	—	MI
YATES, Sidney Richard	—	IL
FLAKE, Floyd Harold	—	NY
SCHUETTE, Bill	—	MI
DeWINE, Michael	—	OH
MARTIN, Lynn Morley	—	IL
WEISS, Theodore S.	—	NY
GALLO, Dean Anderson	—	NJ
McEWEN, Bob	—	OH
MOLINARI, Susan	—	NY
BENTLEY, Helen Delich	—	MD
DOUGLAS, Charles Gywnne, III	—	NH
RIDGE, Thomas Joseph	—	PA
MILLER, John Ripin	—	WA
AUCOIN, Les	—	OR
KOLBE, James Thomas	—	AZ
HUBBARD, Carroll, Jr.	—	KY
CRANE, Philip Miller	—	IL
CLAY, William Lacy, Sr.	—	MO
DELLUMS, Ronald V.	—	CA
VANDER JAGT, Guy Adrian	—	MI
BLILEY, Thomas Jerome, Jr.	—	VA
CRAIG, Larry Edwin	—	ID
WILLIAMS, John Patrick	—	MT
HOLLOWAY, Clyde Cecil	—	LA
ROYBAL, Edward R.	—	CA
LEWIS, Thomas F.	—	FL
THOMAS, Craig Lyle	—	WY
MURTHA, John Patrick, Jr.	—	PA
DREIER, David Timothy	—	CA
GRADISON, Willis David, Jr.	—	OH
SNOWE, Olympia Jean	—	ME
HAMMERSCHMIDT, John Paul	—	AR
SCHEUER, James Haas	—	NY
POSHARD, Glenn	—	IL
BOGGS, Corinne Claiborne	—	LA
QUILLEN, James Henry	—	TN
DOWNEY, Thomas Joseph	—	NY
DICKINSON, William Louis	—	AL
RAY, Richard Belmont	—	GA
YOUNG, Charles William	—	FL
SARPALIUS, William	—	TX
PACKARD, Ronald C.	—	CA
MADIGAN, Edward Rell	—	IL
EMERSON, Norvell William	—	MO
GRANT, James William	—	FL
VOLKMER, Harold Lee	—	MO
DeLAY, Thomas Dale	—	TX
NAGLE, David Ray	—	IA
STENHOLM, Charles Walter	—	TX
LAGOMARSINO, Robert John	—	CA
TAUZIN, Wilbert Joseph	—	LA
STEARNS, Clifford Bundy	—	FL
WELDON, Wayne Curtis	—	PA
SKELTON, Isaac Newton, IV	—	MO
WHEAT, Alan Dupree	—	MO
HEFLEY, Joel M.	—	CO
PURSELL, Carl Duane	—	MI
REGULA, Ralph Straus	—	OH
HOPKINS, Larry Jones	—	KY
VENTO, Bruce Frank	—	MN
SWIFT, Allan Byron	—	WA
LIGHTFOOT, James Ross	—	IA
KOSTMAYER, Peter Houston	—	PA
SABO, Martin Olav	—	MN
CONTE, Silvio Ottavio	—	MA
DYSON, Royden Patrick	—	MD
BOEHLERT, Sherwood Louis	—	NY
LIVINGSTON, Robert Linlithgow, Jr.	—	LA
HANCOCK, Melton D.	—	MO
KASTENMEIER, Robert William	—	WI
BATEMAN, Herbert Harvell	—	VA
VUCANOVICH, Barbara Farrell	—	NV
BEREUTER, Douglas Kent	—	NE
SHUSTER, E. G.	—	PA
ROWLAND, John	—	CT
BOSCO, Douglas Harry	—	CA
GREEN, Sedgwick William	—	NY
MYERS, John Thomas	—	IN
BILIRAKIS, Michael	—	FL
WILSON, Charles	—	TX
MOORHEAD, Carlos John	—	CA
LENT, Norman Frederick	—	NY
WALKER, Robert Smith	—	PA
BROOMFIELD, William S.	—	MI
LOWERY, William David	—	CA
PAXON, L. William	—	NY
SUNDQUIST, Donald Kenneth	—	TN
DYMALLY, Mervyn Malcolm	—	CA
LEATH, James Marvin	—	TX
SMITH, Neal Edward	—	IA
THOMAS, William Marshall	—	CA
McGRATH, Raymond Joseph	—	NY
MATSUI, Robert T.	—	CA
FIELDS, Jack Milton, Jr.	—	TX
GINGRICH, Newton Leroy	—	GA
SHAW, Eugene Clay, Jr.	—	FL
SAIKI, Patricia	—	HI
BURTON, Danny Lee	—	IN
RAVENEL, Arthur, Jr.	—	SC
HATCHER, Charles Floyd	—	GA
MACHTLEY, Ronald K.	—	RI
SCHULZE, Richard Taylor	—	PA
SLAUGHTER, Daniel French, Jr.	—	VA
DAVIS, Robert William	—	MI
HASTERT, John Dennis	—	IL
IRELAND, Andrew Poysell	—	FL
STOKES, Louis	—	OH
McMILLAN, John Alexander, III	—	NC
GOSS, Porter J.	—	FL
RHODES, John Jacob, III	—	AZ
WALSH, James T.	—	NY
ROE, Robert A.	—	NJ
RITTER, Donald Lawrence	—	PA
FEIGHAN, Edward Farrell	—	OH
ENGLISH, Glenn Lee, Jr.	—	OK
SHUMWAY, Norman David	—	CA
EDWARDS, Marvin Henry	—	OK
HERGER, Walter William	—	CA
OXLEY, Michael Garver	—	OH
GOODLING, William Franklin	—	PA
GALLEGLY, Elton W.	—	CA
COUGHLIN, Robert Lawrence	—	PA
PAYNE, Donald Milford	—	NJ
JAMES, Craig T.	—	FL
SMITH, Robert Freeman	—	OR
HILER, John Patrick	—	IN
HUNTER, Duncan Lee	—	CA
WYLIE, Chalmers Pangburn	—	OH
BAKER, Richard Hugh	—	LA
McCANDLESS, Alfred A.	—	CA
ROTH, Toby A.	—	WI
EDWARDS, William Donlon	—	CA
MORRISON, Sidney Wallace	—	WA
SAXTON, Hugh James	—	NJ
HUCKABY, Thomas Jerald	—	LA
SMITH, Virginia Dodd	—	NE
SMITH, Robert C.	—	NH
Nancy Pelosi	Democrat	CA
John Lewis	Democrat	GA
Edward J. Markey	Democrat	MA
Kweisi Mfume	Democrat	MD
John Conyers, Jr.	Democrat	MI
Peter A. DeFazio	Democrat	OR
Jim McDermott	Democrat	WA
Nick J. Rahall II	Democrat	WV
Don Young	Republican	AK
Jon Kyl	Republican	AZ
Dana Rohrabacher	Republican	CA
Pat Roberts	Republican	KS
Harold Rogers	Republican	KY
Fred Upton	Republican	MI
Howard Coble	Republican	NC
Christopher H. Smith	Republican	NJ
James M. Inhofe	Republican	OK
John J. Duncan, Jr.	Republican	TN
Joe Barton	Republican	TX
Lamar Smith	Republican	TX
Frank R. Wolf	Republican	VA
F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.	Republican	WI

Not Voting: 16 (3 D · 1 R)

Member	Party	State
FISH, Hamilton, Jr.	—	NY
LEWIS, Charles Jeremy	—	CA
BERMAN, Howard Lawrence	—	CA
CLEMENT, Robert Nelson	—	TN
MARLENEE, Ronald Charles	—	MT
SMITH, Lawrence Jack	—	FL
COSTELLO, Jerry Francis	—	IL
ACKERMAN, Gary Leonard	—	NY
ROBINSON, Tommy Franklin	—	AR
RICHARDSON, Bill	—	NM
SMITH, Dennis Alan	—	OR
ASPIN, Leslie	—	WI
George Miller	Democrat	CA
Henry A. Waxman	Democrat	CA
Charles B. Rangel	Democrat	NY
Ralph M. Hall	Republican	TX

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