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Senate Roll Call 377, 103rd Congress · November 17, 1993

To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide the death penalty for engaging in a continuing criminal drug enterprise involving a large quantity of drugs. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE D'AMATO/HATCH AMENDMENT NO. 1199, TO PROVIDE THE DEATH PENALTY FOR ENGAGING IN A CONTINUING CRIMINAL DRUG ENTERPRISE INVOLVING A LARGE QUANTITY OF DRUGS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

74 yea · 25 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat33 yea · 20 nay
Republican39 yea · 5 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1607 ↗

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.

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”

    model(0.95): Expanding the death penalty for drug offenses increases punitive criminal justice measures.

    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 (74)

Nay (25)

Not voting or present (1)

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