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House Roll Call 102, 104th Congress · February 8, 1995

(HOUSE REJECTED THE FIELDS OF LOUISIANA AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO ADD LANGUAGE TO PERMIT JURIES, IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE THE BILL NOW REQUIRES THE DEALTH PENALTY, TO RECOMMEND A SENTENCE OF DEATH OR OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF RELEASE.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

139 yea · 291 nayFailed4 not voting or present
Democrat129 yea · 66 nay
Republican9 yea · 225 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 729 ↗

Effective Death Penalty Act of 1995

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 “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.95): Allows juries to recommend life imprisonment instead of mandatory death sentences.

    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 (139)

Nay (291)

Not voting or present (4)

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