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Senate Roll Call 592, 100th Congress · June 9, 1988

TO INVOKE CLOTURE, THEREBY LIMITING DEBATE ON S 2455, DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG-RELATED KILLINGS, A BILL TO INSTITUTE THE DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG-RELATED KILLINGS. MOTION ADOPTED, THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS CHOSEN AND SWORN HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

70 yea · 26 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat30 yea · 21 nay
Republican40 yea · 6 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2455 ↗

A bill entitled "Death Penalty in case of Drug Related Killings".

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): Invoking cloture advances a bill that institutes the death penalty.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

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

Yea (70)

Nay (27)

Not voting or present (3)

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