Senate Roll Call 788, 100th Congress · October 13, 1988
TO AMEND HR 5210, OMNIBUS DRUG BILL, TO REPLACE THE DEATH PENALTY WITH A LIFE SENTENCE WITHOUT RELEASE FOR THOSE WHO INTENTIONALLY KILL IN THE COURSE OF DRUG-RELATED OFFENSES.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 “Reform-oriented”
model(0.95): Replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment is a reform-oriented criminal justice measure.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment is a sentencing measure, not a fiscal policy.
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 (26)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- John Claggett Danforth
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Paul Martin Simon
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (68)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (6)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
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