Senate Roll Call 421, 101st Congress · June 5, 1990
A bill to establish constitutional procedures for the imposition of the sentence of death, and for other purposes. — TO INVOKE CLOTURE ON S 1970, OMNIBUS CRIME BILL, TO ESTABLISH CONSTITUTIONAL PROCEDURES FOR THE IMPOSITION OF THE SENTENCE OF DEATH. (MOTION REJECTED; THREE-FIFTHS OF THE TOTAL SENATE NOT VOTING IN FAVOR.)
Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion
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(0.85): Cloture advances an omnibus crime bill establishing federal death penalty procedures.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Advancing capital punishment procedures does not directly address fiscal expansion or restraint.
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 (54)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (38)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Richard C. Shelby
- Arlen Specter
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
Not voting or present (8)
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Howell Thomas HeflinDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Pete WilsonDid not vote
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