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Senate Roll Call 424, 101st Congress · June 7, 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 TOTAL SENATE NOT VOTING IN FAVOR.)

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

57 yea · 37 nayCloture Motion Rejected6 not voting or present
Democrat46 yea · 6 nay
Republican9 yea · 31 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 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): Invoking cloture advances a measure 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) Cloture on a death penalty procedure measure has no direct fiscal or budget impact.

    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 (57)

Nay (37)

Not voting or present (6)

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