Senate Roll Call 382, 103rd Congress · November 17, 1993
To repeal the separate independent counsel appointment process and provide for the Presidential appointment of a special counsel within the Department of Justice if necessary to avoid a conflict of interest. — (SENATE TABLED THE COCHRAN AMENDMENT NO. 1206, IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Independent Counsel Reauthorization 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 JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Independent counsel appointment process changes do not map to the criminal justice axis.
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 (68)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Harlan Mathews
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Nay (29)
- Christopher S. Bond
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Judd A. Gregg
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- James M. Jeffords
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Richard C. Shelby
- Robert Smith
- Ted F. Stevens
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (3)
- Byron L. DorganDid not vote
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
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