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House Roll Call 458, 101st Congress · May 8, 1990

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ACT OF 1989 — TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS HR 237, BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ANTI-TERRORISM ACT OF 1989, TO IMPLEMENT THE CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTION, AND STOCKPILING OF BACTERIOLOGICAL AND TOXIN WEAPONS AND THEIR DESTRUCTION BY PROHIBITING CERTAIN CONDUCT RELATING TO BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS. (MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

408 yea · 0 nayPassed23 not voting or present
Democrat232 yea · 0 nay
Republican177 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 237 ↗

Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989

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(0.85): Prohibiting biological weapons conduct and establishing criminal liability expands punitive criminal measures.

    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 (410)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (23)

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