House Roll Call 714, 103rd Congress · April 19, 1994

(HOUSE REJECTED THE DERRICK AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO NARROW THE INSTANCES IN WHICH "NEW RULES" OF LAW WOULD RETROACTIVELY BE APPLIED IN HABEAS CORPUS APPEALS BY THE PRISONER.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

169 yea · 256 nayFailed10 not voting or present

Democrat168 yea · 79 nay

Republican2 yea · 177 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 “Punitive”
model(0.90): Narrowing the retroactive application of new legal rules restricts prisoner appeals, which is 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 (171)

Nay (256)

Not voting or present (10)

Lucien Edward BlackwellDid not vote
Cardiss CollinsDid not vote
Eni F. H. FaleomavaegaDid not vote
Hamilton Fish Jr.Did not vote
Dean Anderson GalloDid not vote
Frederick Lawrence GrandyDid not vote
Robert Linligthgow Livingston Jr.Did not vote
Douglas Brian PetersonDid not vote
Carlos Romero-BarcelóDid not vote
Robert A. UnderwoodDid not vote

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