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Senate Roll Call 275, 101st Congress · October 26, 1989

A bill to provide for the imposition of the death penalty for the terrorist murder of United States nationals abroad. — TO PASS S 1798, DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORISTS.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

79 yea · 20 nayBill Passed1 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 15 nay
Republican39 yea · 5 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1798 ↗

A bill to provide for the imposition of the death penalty for the terrorist murder of United States nationals abroad.

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): Establishing the death penalty for terrorist murders increases penal 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 (79)

Nay (20)

Not voting or present (1)

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