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S Amdt 1682 - Blood Alcohol Content Amendment - Key Vote
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- S Amdt 1682 - Blood Alcohol Content Amendment
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Amendment - Amendment Adopted (Senate) (62-32) - March 4, 1998 (Key vote)
Title: Blood Alcohol Content Amendment
Vote to adopt an amendment requiring states to enact and enforce a standard of 0.08 blood alcohol content (BAC) as the definition of driving while intoxicated, by withholding a portion of funding from those states that do not enforce the new BAC.
Amendment - Introduced (Senate) - March 3, 1998
Title: Blood Alcohol Content Amendment
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Co-sponsors
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka Sr. (HI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jeff Bingaman (NM - D) (Out Of Office)
- Barbara Boxer (CA - D)
- Dale Bumpers (AR - D) (Out Of Office)
- John H. Chafee (RI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Michael 'Mike' DeWine (OH - R) (Out Of Office)
- Christopher J. 'Chris' Dodd (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Richard J. 'Dick' Durbin (IL - D)
- Duncan McLauchlin 'Lauch' Faircloth (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Dianne Feinstein (CA - D)
- John Glenn (OH - D) (Out Of Office)
- Orrin G. Hatch (UT - R)
- Jesse Helms (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Ernest F. 'Fritz' Hollings (SC - ) (Out Of Office)
- Daniel K. Inouye (HI - D) (Out Of Office)
- John Forbes Kerry (MA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Joseph I. 'Joe' Lieberman (CT - I) (Out Of Office)
- Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun (IL - ) (Out Of Office)
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- John Francis 'Jack' Reed (RI - D)
- John D. 'Jay' Rockefeller IV (WV - D)
- Gordon Harold Smith (OR - R) (Out Of Office)
- Strom Thurmond (SC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Paul D. Wellstone (MN - D) (Out Of Office)