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Senate Roll Call 448, 101st Congress · June 28, 1990

To make the death penalty procedures inoperable with respect to murders committed by, or against, Indians in any portion of Indian country that elects to make the procedures inoperable. — TO TABLE THE INOUYE (D, HI) AMENDMENT TO S 1970, OMNIBUS CRIME BILL, TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEATH PENALTY PROVISIONS OF THE BILL NOT APPLY TO CRIMES COMMITTED IN ANY PORTION OF INDIAN COUNTRY THAT ELECTS TO MAKE THE PROCEDURES INOPERABLE.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

37 yea · 62 nayMotion to Table Failed1 not voting or present
Democrat7 yea · 47 nay
Republican30 yea · 13 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(0.90): Tabling the amendment kills the proposal to exempt tribal lands from the death penalty.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) This death penalty amendment is not a fiscal spending measure.

    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 (37)

Nay (62)

Not voting or present (1)

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