Senate Roll Call 102, 102nd Congress · June 20, 1991
To stike the section creating the Racial Justice Act. — S.1241 BY BIDEN (D-DE) -- THE BIDEN-THURMOND VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL ACT OF 1991 SAFER STREETS AND NEIGHBORHOODS ACT OF 1991 FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY ACT OF 1991 DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG KINGPINS ACT OF 1991 ACT FOR THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST MARITIME NAVIGATION AND FIXED PLATFORMS ALIEN WITNESS COOPERATION ACT OF 1991 DRIVE-BY SHOOTING PREVENTION ACT OF 1991 ANTIDRUG, ASSAULT WEAPONS LIMITATION ACT OF 1991 POLICE CORPS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING AND EDUCATION ACT LAW ENFORCEMENT SCHOLARSHIPS AND RECRUITMENT ACT POLICE OFFICERS' BILL OF RIGHTS ACT OF 1991 FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1991 HABEAS CORPUS REFORM ACT OF 1991 DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION PROCEDURES ACT OF 1991 GUN CRIMINALS PUNISHMENT ACT OF 1991 ICE ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1991 DRUG FREE TRUCK STOP ACT DRUG EMERGENCY AREAS ACT OF 1991 DRUNK DRIVING CHILD PROTECTION ACT OF 1991 VICTIMS' RIGHTS AND RESTITUTION ACT OF 1991 NATIONAL COMMISSION TO SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT FEDERAL PRISONER DRUG TESTING ACT OF 1991 ILLEGAL DRUG PROFITS ACT OF 1991 MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT PREVENTION ACT THE CHEMICAL CONTROL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT OF 1991 MURDER OF UNITED STATES NATIONALS ACT OF 1991 TELEMARKETING AND CONSUMER FRAUD AND ABUSE PREVENTION ACT CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS CONTROL ACT NATIONAL CHILD ABUSER REGISTRATION ACT OF 1991 FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FRAUD PROSECUTION ACT OF 1991 INSURANCE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT UNITED STATES MARSHALS ASSOCIATION ESTABLISHMENT ACT ORDER TO LAND AND TO BRING TO ACT OF 1991 COAST GUARD ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1991 MISCELLANEOUS CRIMINAL LAW IMPROVEMENTS ACT OF 1991 EXPLOITATION OF ALIENS ACT OF 1991 ANTI-CORRUPTION ACT OF 1991 CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN REGISTRATION ACT COMPUTER ABUSE AMENDMENTS ACT OF 1991 CONSUMER PROTECTION AGAINST CREDIT CARD FRAUD ACT OF 1991 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNITY SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION ACT OF 1991 (SENATE AGREED TO THE MITCHELL (FOR GRAHAM) AMENDMENT NO. 365, STRIKING SECTION 207, PROVISIONS THAT BAN THE USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY IF STATISTICAL EVIDENCE DEMONSTRATES THAT IT IS USED IN A RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY MANNER.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Biden-Thurmond Violent Crime Control Act of 1991
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): Striking Racial Justice Act removes a criminal justice reform provision.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (55)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Charles S. Robb
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- John Seymour
- Richard C. Shelby
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Harris Wofford
Nay (41)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (4)
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- Paul David WellstoneDid not vote
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