Senate Roll Call 689, 103rd Congress · August 25, 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. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE AGREED TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R.3355.)
Question before the chamber: On the Cloture 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(0.85): Cloture advances the 1994 Crime Bill, which expanded punitive measures, death penalties, and prison funding.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.85): Cloture advances consideration of major crime spending and grant authorizations.
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 (61)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Kent Conrad
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- 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
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- 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
- Arlen Specter
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Nay (38)
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
Not voting or present (1)
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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