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House Roll Call 725, 103rd Congress · April 20, 1994

(HOUSE REJECTED THE MCCOLLUM AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO STRIKE PROVISIONS THAT BAR EXECUTION OF PRISONERS WHO DEMONSTRATE THAT THEIR DEATH SENTENCE WAS IMPOSED BECAUSE OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, AND THAT PERMIT THE USE OF STATISTICAL EVIDENCE SHOWING A SIGNIFICANT RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY PATTERN IN THIS DETERMINATION.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

212 yea · 212 nayFailed9 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 209 nay
Republican169 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.

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”

    model(0.95): Striking protections against racially discriminatory imposition of the death penalty narrows civil rights.

    Tagged by: keyword:discrimination

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”

    model(0.95): Striking racial bias protections in capital sentencing 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 (212)

Nay (217)

Not voting or present (9)

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