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House Roll Call 772, 101st Congress · October 5, 1990

TO AMEND HR 5269, COMPREHENSIVE CRIME CONTROL ACT OF 1990, TO CREATE A BROAD GOOD FAITH EXCEPTION TO THE RULE WHICH PROHIBITS THE USE OF ILLEGALLY OBTAINED EVIDENCE AT A TRIAL.

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

265 yea · 156 nayAgreed to10 not voting or present
Democrat91 yea · 151 nay
Republican174 yea · 4 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): Creating a broad good-faith exception weakens exclusionary rule protections for defendants, taking a punitive stance.

    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 (266)

Nay (156)

Not voting or present (10)

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