Senate Roll Call 104, 102nd Congress · June 25, 1991
To codify the "good faith" exception to the exclusionary rule. — (SENATE REJECTED THE THURMOND AMENDMENT NO. 368, PERMITTING EXCEPTIONS TO THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE IN SEARCHES WHERE THERE WAS NO SEARCH WARRANT IF CONFORMING TO THE FOURTH AMENDMENT, AND PERMITTING THE ADMISSION INTO EVIDENCE OF A FIREARM HOWEVER IT IS SEIZED OR FOUND.)
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.
- GunsDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Search and seizure evidentiary rules do not alter gun rights or restrictions.
Tagged by: keyword:firearm
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.95): Codifying good faith exception expands police powers over defendants.
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 (43)
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- 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
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- William V. Roth Jr.
- John Seymour
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (54)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- 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
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Paul David Wellstone
- Timothy E. Wirth
- Harris Wofford
Not voting or present (3)
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Robert SmithDid not vote
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