House Roll Call 765, 101st Congress · October 4, 1990

TO AMEND HR 5269, COMPREHENSIVE CRIME CONTROL ACT OF 1990, TO REDUCE TO SIX MONTHS THE DEADLINE UNDER WHICH DEATH ROW PRISONERS MUST FILE HABEAS CORPUS PETITIONS AFTER THEIR DIRECT APPEALS HAVE BEEN EXHAUSTED.

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

188 yea · 239 nayFailed5 not voting or present

Democrat169 yea · 76 nay

Republican18 yea · 162 nay

Other1 yea · 1 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 “Punitive”
model(0.95): Shortening the habeas corpus deadline restricts appeals for death row inmates, adopting a more punitive standard.
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 (188)

Nay (239)

Not voting or present (5)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.