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Senate Roll Call 450, 101st Congress · June 28, 1990

To limit required studies to instances where constitutional violations have been found or suspected. — TO AMEND THE GRAHAM (D, FL) AMENDMENT TO S 1970, OMNIBUS CRIME BILL, TO LIMIT REQUIRED STUDIES ON THE ROLE OF RACE IN STATE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS TO INSTANCES WHERE CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS HAVE BEEN FOUND OR SUSPECTED.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

44 yea · 55 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat6 yea · 48 nay
Republican38 yea · 5 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): Limiting studies on racial bias in the criminal justice system restricts reform oversight.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Limiting race studies is a policy issue rather than a fiscal spending vote.

    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 (44)

Nay (55)

Not voting or present (1)

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