Senate Roll Call 790, 100th Congress · October 13, 1988
TO TABLE THE SIMON, IL AMENDMENT TO HR 5210, OMNIBUS DRUG BILL, TO MODIFY THE DEATH PENALTY PROVISIONS TO ALLOW THE DEATH PENALTY ONLY IF AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER OR POLICE OFFICER IS KILLED DURING A DRUG CRIME.
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 “Punitive”
model(0.95): Tabling an amendment that restricts the death penalty maintains a more punitive stance.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Tabling a death penalty restriction amendment is a policy vote, not a fiscal one.
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 (74)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- 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
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- 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.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- 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
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (16)
Not voting or present (10)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Rudolph Eli BoschwitzDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- David Kemp KarnesDid not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
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