Senate Roll Call 417, 101st Congress · May 23, 1990

To amend title 28 of the United States Code to provide special habeas corpus procedures in capital cases. — TO AMEND S 1970, OMNIBUS CRIME BILL, TO PROVIDE SPECIAL HABEAS CORPUS PROCEDURES IN CAPITAL CASES.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

47 yea · 50 nayAmendment Rejected3 not voting or present

Democrat7 yea · 45 nay

Republican40 yea · 3 nay

Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1970 ↗

A bill to establish constitutional procedures for the imposition of the sentence of death, and for other purposes.

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(0.85): Expediting capital habeas corpus procedures limits appeals for death row inmates, moving toward a punitive stance.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Habeas corpus procedures in capital cases are judicial procedures, not fiscal measures.
Tagged by: keyword:omnibus
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 (47)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (3)

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