Senate Roll Call 420, 101st Congress · May 24, 1990
To strike section 107 of title I, to prohibit the imposition or the carrying out of the death penalty in a racially discriminatory pattern. — TO AMEND S 1970, OMNIBUS CRIME BILL, TO STRIKE SECTION 107 OF TITLE I, TO PROHIBIT THE IMPOSITION OR THE CARRYING OUT OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN A RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY PATTERN.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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(0.90): Striking a prohibition on racially discriminatory death penalty enforcement removes criminal justice reform.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Provisions concerning racial discrimination in capital punishment do not involve federal spending.
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 (59)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Charles S. Robb
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Nay (39)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (2)
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
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