Senate Roll Call 459, 101st Congress · July 11, 1990

A bill to establish constitutional procedures for the imposition of the sentence of death, and for other purposes. — TO PASS S 1970, OMNIBUS CRIME BILL, TO ESTABLISH CONSTITUTIONAL PROCEDURES FOR THE IMPOSITION OF THE SENTENCE OF DEATH.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

94 yea · 6 nayBill Passed

Democrat52 yea · 2 nay

Republican40 yea · 4 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(0.95): Passing procedures to impose the death penalty advances punitive criminal justice policies.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Establishing death penalty procedures is not primarily a spending or budget 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 (94)

Nay (6)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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