House Roll Call 705, 103rd Congress · April 14, 1994

(HOUSE REJECTED THE WATT AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO DELETE PROVISIONS REGARDING DEATH PENALTY PROCEDURES THAT STATE THAT AGGRAVATING FACTORS MAY BE CONSIDERED IN IMPOSING THE DEATH PENALTY.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

111 yea · 308 nayFailed13 not voting or present

Democrat113 yea · 134 nay

Republican2 yea · 174 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 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 “Reform-oriented”
model(0.90): Deleting provisions that allow aggravating factors for the death penalty narrows its application.
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 (116)

Nay (308)

Not voting or present (13)

Xavier BecerraDid not vote
Hamilton Fish Jr.Did not vote
Dean Anderson GalloDid not vote
William F. GoodlingPresent
Frederick Lawrence GrandyDid not vote
Gregory H. LaughlinDid not vote
Austin John MurphyDid not vote
Stephen Lybrook NealDid not vote
James Henry QuillenDid not vote
Marge RoukemaDid not vote
Itimous Thaddeus, Jr., ValentineDid not vote
Craig Anthony WashingtonDid not vote
Jamie Lloyd WhittenDid not vote

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