Senate Roll Call 113, 102nd Congress · June 28, 1991
To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish procedures for mandatory instant background checks of the criminal histories of prospective buyers of handguns and to establish mandatory prison sentences for the commission of a crime with a firearm in addition to any other penalties. — (SENATE REJECTED THE STEVENS AMENDMENT NO. 429, TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES FOR MANDATORY INSTANT BACKGROUND CHECKS OF THE CRIMINAL HISTORIES OF PROSPECTIVE BUYERS OF HANDGUNS AND TO ESTABLISH MANDATORY PRISON SENTENCES FOR THE COMMISSION OF A CRIME WITH A FIREARM IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER PENALTIES.)
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(0.95): Requiring mandatory background checks for handgun purchases adds gun restrictions.
Tagged by: keyword:firearm
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.90): Mandating prison sentences for crimes committed with firearms 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 (44)
- Max Baucus
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- John Seymour
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (54)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- 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
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Timothy E. Wirth
- Harris Wofford
Not voting or present (2)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
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