Senate Roll Call 594, 100th Congress · June 10, 1988
TO TABLE THE SIMON, IL AMENDMENT TO S 2455, DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG-RELATED KILLINGS, TO PERMIT THE DEATH PENALTY ONLY FOR THE DRUG-RELATED KILLINGS OF POLICE OFFICERS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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): Tabling the amendment rejects narrowing the scope of 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 (66)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Nay (28)
- David Lyle Boren
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- James Terry Sanford
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (6)
- Brockman AdamsDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- Barbara A. MikulskiDid not vote
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