Senate Roll Call 112, 102nd Congress · June 27, 1991
To provide for mandatory prison terms for using, possessing, or carrying of a firearm during state crimes of violence or State drug trafficking crimes. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE D'AMATO AMENDMENT NO. 387, PROVIDING FOR MANDATORY PRISON TERMS FOR USE, POSSESSION, OR CARRYING OF A FIREARM OR DESTRUCTIVE DEVICE DURING A STATE CRIME OF VIOLENCE OR STATE DRUG TRAFFICKING CRIME.)
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.
- GunsA yea counts toward “Gun restrictions”
model(0.85): Mandating prison sentences for using firearms during crimes increases firearm restrictions.
Tagged by: keyword:firearm
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.95): Mandating prison terms for firearm use during crimes increases criminal penalties.
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 (88)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- 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
- Paul David Wellstone
- Timothy E. Wirth
- Harris Wofford
Nay (11)
Not voting or present (1)
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
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