Senate Roll Call 520, 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. — (SENATE AGREED TO BIDEN MODIFIED MOTION TO INSTRUCT THE CONFEREES TO INSIST THAT THE COMMITTEE ON CONFERENCE REPORT A COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE THAT INCLUDES THE VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION TRUST FUND, ADEQUATE FUNDING TO PUT 100,000 MORE POLICE OFFICERS IN COMMUNITY POLICING PROGRAMS, FUNDING FOR STATE AND LOCAL CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS, FUNDING FOR CONSTRUCTION AND/OR OPERATION OF SECURE PRISON FACILITIES AND BOOT CAMPS, JAILS, AND OTHER LOW OR MEDIUM SECURITY STATE AND LOCAL FACILITIES, TOUGH PENALTIES FOR VIOLENT CRIMINALS, A VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT, FUNDING FOR FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, THE SENIOR CITIZENS AGAINST MARKETING SCAMS ACT, TITLE 14 OF THE SENATE BILL, REGARDING RURAL CRIME, AND SECTION 1031 OF THE SENATE BILL, TO IMPROVE TRAINING OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.)
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.
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.80): Insisting on 100,000 police officers, prison construction, and tough penalties reinforces a punitive policy focus.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.85): Instructing conferees to insist on major grant funding for police, prevention, and prisons expands federal spending.
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 (94)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- 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
- 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
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- 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
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Harlan Mathews
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- 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
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Not voting or present (2)
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Richard C. ShelbyDid not vote
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