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Senate Roll Call 383, 101st Congress · April 27, 1990

To provide the death penalty in the District of Columbia for a drug-related murder. — TO TABLE THE GRAMM (R, TX) AMENDMENT TO HR 4404, FISCAL 1990 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS, TO INSTITUTE THE DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG-RELATED MURDERS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. (MOTION FAILED.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

27 yea · 60 nayMotion to Table Failed12 not voting or present
Democrat20 yea · 29 nay
Republican6 yea · 30 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4404 ↗

Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Assistance, Food Stamps, Unemployment Compensation Administration, and Other Urgent Needs, and Transfers, and Reducing Funds Budgeted for Military Spending Act of 1990

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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): Tabling kills an amendment instituting the death penalty, moving toward reform.

    Tagged by: keyword:death penalty

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Criminal justice policy amendment where fiscal impact is incidental.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (27)

Nay (60)

Not voting or present (12)

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