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House Roll Call 703, 103rd Congress · April 14, 1994

(HOUSE AGREED TO THE GEKAS AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO SPECIFY THE ELEMENTS THAT MUST BE PROVED TO CONVICT THE DEFENDANT OF THE OFFENSE COULD BE AGGRAVATING FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED IN DECIDING WHETHER TO IMPOSE A DEATH PENALTY.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

226 yea · 193 nayAgreed to13 not voting or present
Democrat56 yea · 190 nay
Republican170 yea · 7 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4092 ↗

Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994

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): Expanding aggravating factors to impose the death penalty makes sentencing more punitive.

    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 (226)

Nay (198)

Not voting or present (13)

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