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House Roll Call 776, 100th Congress · September 8, 1988

TO AMEND HR 5210, OMNIBUS DRUG BILL, TO STATE THAT THE DEATH PENALTY BE GIVEN TO PEOPLE CONVICTED OF DRUG-RELATED MURDERS.

299 yea · 111 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat133 yea · 105 nay
Republican170 yea · 9 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5210 ↗

Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”

    model(0.95): Establishes death penalty for drug-related murders.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Death penalty provision does not directly address spending or budget.

    Tagged by: keyword:omnibus

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (305)

Nay (115)

Not voting or present (11)

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