Senate Roll Call 109, 102nd Congress · June 26, 1991
To provide for the death penalty for homicides involving firearms. — (SENATE AGREED TO D'AMATO AMENDMENT NO. 382, TO PERMIT PROSECUTORS TO SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY IF A FIREARM THAT HAS BEEN TRANSPORTED THROUGH INTERSTATE COMMERCE IS USED TO COMMIT A MURDER.)
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) Establishing criminal penalties for homicides does not impact gun regulation or gun rights.
Tagged by: keyword:firearm
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.95): Adding death penalty for firearm homicides increases punitive sanctions.
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 (65)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- 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
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- John Seymour
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Timothy E. Wirth
- Harris Wofford
Nay (33)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (2)
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
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