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

Effective death penalty act of 1995 — (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 729, TO CONTROL CRIME BY A MORE EFFECTIVE DEATH PENALTY.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

297 yea · 132 nayPassed5 not voting or present
Democrat66 yea · 129 nay
Republican231 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 “Punitive”

    model(0.95): Expands and streamlines the death penalty, moving toward a more punitive criminal justice system.

    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 (297)

Nay (132)

Not voting or present (5)

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