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House Roll Call 758, 101st Congress · October 3, 1990

TO AMEND HR 5269, COMPREHENSIVE CRIME CONTROL ACT OF 1990, TO CHANGE THE SENTENCE FOR CERTAIN CRIMES FROM THE DEATH PENALTY TO MANDATORY LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT PAROLE PLUS RESTITUTION.

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

102 yea · 322 nayFailed7 not voting or present
Democrat96 yea · 150 nay
Republican6 yea · 171 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5269 ↗

Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1990

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 reduces sentence severity.

    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 (102)

Nay (323)

Not voting or present (7)

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