Senate Roll Call 361, 103rd Congress · November 9, 1993
To make carjacking a Federal offense without regard to whether the offense is committed with the use of a firearm and to authorize imposition of the death penalty if death results from commission of the offense. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE LIEBERMAN AMENDMENT NO. 1141, TO MAKE CARJACKING A FEDERAL OFFENSE WITHOUT REGARD TO WHETHER THE OFFENSE IS COMMITTED WITH THE USE OF A FIREARM AND TO AUTHORIZE IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IF DEATH RESULTS FROM COMMISSION OF THE OFFENSE.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1993
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.
- GunsDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Federalizing carjacking regardless of firearm use does not directly expand or restrict gun rights.
Tagged by: keyword:firearm
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.95): Federalizing carjacking and authorizing the death penalty expands punitive criminal law.
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 (65)
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Harlan Mathews
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Harris Wofford
Nay (34)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Daniel Coats
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Russell D. Feingold
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Paul Martin Simon
- Malcolm Wallop
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (1)
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
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