Senate Roll Call 518, 103rd Congress · May 19, 1994
A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow grants to increase police presence, to expand and improve cooperative efforts between law enforcement agencies and members of the community to address crime and disorder problems, and otherwise to enhance public safety. — H.R.3355 BY BROOKS (D-TX) -- VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1994 PUBLIC SAFETY PARTNERSHIP AND COMMUNITY POLICING ACT OF 1994 COMMUNITY SCHOOLS YOUTH SERVICES AND SUPERVISION GRANT PROGRAM ACT OF 1994 FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENDEAVOR SCHOOLS ACT NATIONAL COMMUNITY ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP ACT OF 1994 FAMILY UNITY DEMONSTRATION PROJECT ACT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT OF 1994 SAFE STREETS FOR WOMEN ACT OF 1994 SAFE HOMES FOR WOMEN ACT OF 1994 CIVIL RIGHTS REMEDIES FOR GENDER-MOTIVATED VIOLENCE ACT EQUAL JUSTICE FOR WOMEN IN THE COURTS ACT OF 1994 FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY ACT OF 1994 DRIVE-BY SHOOTING PREVENTION ACT OF 1994 DRUNK DRIVING CHILD PROTECTION ACT OF 1994 PUBLIC SAFETY AND RECREATIONAL FIREARMS USE PROTECTION ACT MORGAN P. HARDIMAN TASK FORCE ON MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN ACT DRUG FREE TRUCK STOP ACT POLICE CORPS ACT LAW ENFORCEMENT SCHOLARSHIPS AND RECRUITMENT ACT DNA IDENTIFICATION ACT OF 1994 MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT PREVENTION ACT SENIOR CITIZENS AGAINST MARKETING SCAMS ACT OF 1994 COMPUTER ABUSE AMENDMENTS ACT OF 1994 DRIVER'S PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT OF 1994 SAFER STREETS AND NEIGHBORHOODS ACT OF 1994 RECREATIONAL HUNTING SAFETY AND PRESERVATION ACT OF 1994 (PUB. L. 103-322, APPROVED 9/13/94) (SENATE AGREED TO CONRAD/MACK MOTION TO INSTRUCT THE CONFEREES TO INSIST THAT THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE REPORT A CONFERENCE SUBSTITUTE PROVIDING FEDERAL FUNDS FOR STATE PRISONS SETTING CONDITIONS ON A STATE'S ELIGIBILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM IN DEFINITE TERMS, AND CONDITIONING THAT A STATE PROVIDE FOR TRUTH IN SENTENCING BY REQUIRING THAT VIOLENT FELONS SERVE AT LEAST 85 PERCENT OF THE PRISON TIME IMPOSED.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 “Broaden protections”
model(0.80): Advancing the Crime Bill with the Violence Against Women Act broadens civil rights protections.
Tagged by: keyword:civil rights
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.85): Advancing the 1994 Crime Bill emphasizes increased policing, prisons, and punitive criminal justice measures.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.85): Advancing the crime bill expands federal spending on law enforcement, grant programs, and prison construction.
Tagged by: keyword:omnibus
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (74)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Harlan Mathews
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Harris Wofford
Nay (22)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Russell D. Feingold
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Carl Levin
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (4)
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Charles S. RobbDid not vote
- Richard C. ShelbyDid not vote
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