Senate Roll Call 796, 100th Congress · October 14, 1988
TO PASS HR 5210, OMNIBUS DRUG BILL, A BILL TO PREVENT THE MANUFACTURE, DISTRIBUTION AND USE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS AND TO STRENGTHEN LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS AND DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND IMPOSE THE DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG RELATED MURDERS.
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): Strengthens drug law enforcement and imposes the death penalty for drug-related murders.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.80): Authorizes federal spending for drug law enforcement, education programs, and prevention.
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 (91)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- 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
- Paul Martin Simon
- 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
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (6)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
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