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Senate Roll Call 111, 102nd Congress · June 26, 1991

To impose the death penalty for drug-related homicides in the District of Columbia. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE SYMMS AMENDMENT NO. 377, IMPOSING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR DRUG-RELATED HOMICIDES IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

60 yea · 39 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat24 yea · 31 nay
Republican36 yea · 6 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1241 ↗

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): Imposing the death penalty for drug-related homicides increases criminal punishment.

    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 (60)

Nay (39)

Not voting or present (1)

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