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Senate Roll Call 452, 101st Congress · June 28, 1990

To provide for the death penalty for drug kingpins. — TO AMEND S 1970, OMNIBUS CRIME BILL, TO AUTHORIZE THE DEATH PENALTY FOR A PERSON CONVICTED AS HEAD OF A CONTINUING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE UNDER SECTION 848(B) OF TITLE 21, UNITED STATES CODE.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

66 yea · 32 nayAmendment Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat27 yea · 26 nay
Republican38 yea · 5 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 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(0.95): Expanding the death penalty to drug kingpins increases punitive criminal justice measures.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Authorizing the death penalty is a penal policy issue, not a fiscal policy 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 (66)

Nay (32)

Not voting or present (2)

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