House Roll Call 793, 100th Congress · September 14, 1988

TO AMEND HR 5210, OMNIBUS DRUG BILL, TO INSTITUTE A CIVIL PENALTY OF $10,000 MAXIMUM PER VIOLATION FOR POSSESSION OF SMALL AMOUNTS OF ILLEGAL DRUGS.

293 yea · 115 nay17 not voting or present

Democrat120 yea · 114 nay

Republican174 yea · 3 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(0.90): Creates civil fines for drug possession, expanding punitive sanctions.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Drug penalty policy measure with incidental fiscal impact.
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 (296)

Nay (118)

Not voting or present (17)

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