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Senate Roll Call 792, 100th Congress · October 14, 1988

TO AMEND HR 5210, OMNIBUS DRUG BILL, TO DENY FEDERAL BENEFITS TO BOTH DRUG DEALERS AND USERS.

78 yea · 11 nay9 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 8 nay
Republican38 yea · 3 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(0.95): Denying federal benefits to drug offenders increases punitive consequences.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Denying benefits as a drug penalty is a policy fight where spending is incidental.

    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 (80)

Nay (11)

Not voting or present (9)

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