House Roll Call 927, 104th Congress · March 13, 1996
H.R.2703 BY HYDE (R-IL) -- EFFECTIVE DEATH PENALTY AND PUBLIC SAFETY ACT OF 1996 CRIMINAL ALIEN DEPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS ACT OF 1995 INTERNATIONAL COUNTERFEITING PREVENTION ACT OF 1996 BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ENHANCED PENALTIES ACT OF 1996 (HOUSE AGREED TO THE BARR AMENDMENT THAT EXTENDS TO ONE YEAR A STUDY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT SAFETY ISSUES INCLUDING A STUDY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER DEATHS DUE TO ACCIDENTS, NON-FELONY CAUSES, FELONY FIREARM USE, AND THE USE OF "ARMOR PIERCING" AMMUNITION; STRIKES PROVISIONS TO ALLOW FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACCESS TO CONSUMER CREDIT, PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION, AND COMMON CARRIER INFORMATION; STRIKES THE "GOOD FAITH" EXCEPTIONS TO THE STATUTORY EXCLUSIONARY RULE FOR ADMITTING IN COURT CERTAIN EVIDENCE GATHERED BY WIRETAPS; STRIKES PROVISIONS ALLOWING ALIENS TO BE EXCLUDED OR DENIED ASYLUM IN THE UNITED STATES BASED ON THEIR MEMBERSHIP IN A SUSPECTED OR KNOWN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION; AND STRIKES LANGUAGE REQUIRING TELEPHONE COMPANIES TO ALLOW FEDERAL AUTHORITIES ACCESS TO BILLING RECORDS, AND TO MAINTAIN THEIR RECORDS FOR 90 DAYS TO ASSIST IN FEDERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS.)
Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Effective Death Penalty and Public Safety Act of 1996
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.
- ImmigrationA yea counts toward “Expansive”
model(0.90): Striking provisions that deny asylum or exclude aliens is less restrictive.
Tagged by: keyword:asylum,deportation
Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive
- GunsDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Extending a law enforcement safety study does not directly affect gun rights or restrictions.
Tagged by: keyword:firearm,ammunition
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”
model(0.90): Striking expanded law enforcement powers and good faith wiretap exceptions is reform-oriented.
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 (246)
- Neil Abercrombie
- Wayne A. Allard
- Bill Archer
- Richard K. Armey
- Spencer Bachus
- Richard Hugh Baker
- William P. Baker
- John Baldacci
- Cass Ballenger
- James A. Barcia
- Bob Barr
- Roscoe G. Bartlett
- Joe Barton
- Charles F. Bass
- Herbert H. Bateman
- Ken Bentsen
- Tom Bevill
- Brian P. Bilbray
- Michael Bilirakis
- Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
- Tom Bliley
- John A. Boehner
- Henry Bonilla
- Sonny Bono
- Frederick C. Boucher
- William K. Brewster
- John Glen Browder
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Ed Bryant
- Jim Bunn
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Dan Burton
- H. L. Callahan
- Ken Calvert
- Dave Camp
- Tom Campbell
- Steve Chabot
- Saxby Chambliss
- Jon Lynn Christensen
- Dick Chrysler
- Robert Clement
- Howard Coble
- Tom Coburn
- Ronald D’Emory Coleman
- Michael Allen Collins
- Larry Combest
- Gary Condit
- Wes Cooley
- Jerry F. Costello
- C. Christopher Cox
- Robert E. Cramer Jr.
- Philip M. Crane
- Mike Crapo
- Frank Cremeans
- Barbara L. Cubin
- Randall H. Cunningham
- Pat Danner
- Thomas M. Davis III
- Nathan Deal
- Thomas Dale DeLay
- Jay Dickey
- John D. Dingell
- John T. Doolittle
- Robert Kenneth Dornan
- Michael F. Doyle
- David Dreier
- Thomas Edwards
- Vernon J. Ehlers
- Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
- Norvell William Emerson
- Philip English
- John Eric Ensign
- Lane A. Evans
- Terry Everett
- Thomas W. Ewing
- Jack Milton Fields Jr.
- Mark Adam Foley
- Michael P. Forbes
- Tillie K. Fowler
- Dan Frisa
- Jonas Frost III
- David Funderburk
- George W. Gekas
- Preston M. Geren
- Paul E. Gillmor
- Bob Goodlatte
- Barton Jennings Gordon
- Porter J. Goss
- Lindsey Graham
- Gene Green
- Enid Greene Waldholtz
- Gilbert W. Gutknecht
- Ralph M. Hall
- Lee Herbert Hamilton
- Melton D. Hancock
- James V. Hansen
- Jane Harman
- J. Dennis Hastert
- Doc Hastings
- James Allison Hayes
- John D. Hayworth Jr.
- Joel Hefley
- Willie Gathrel Hefner
- Wally Herger
- Van Hilleary
- Maurice D. Hinchey
- David Lee Hobson
- Peter Hoekstra
- Martin R. Hoke
- Tim Holden
- John Nathan Hostettler
- Tim Hutchinson
- Bob Inglis
- Ernest J. Istook Jr.
- Andrew Jacobs Jr.
- William J. Jefferson
- Sam Johnson
- Tim Johnson
- Walter B. Jones
- Paul E. Kanjorski
- John R. Kasich
- Sue W. Kelly
- Jay Kim
- Peter T. King
- Jack Kingston
- Ron Klink
- Scott L. Klug
- Joseph K. Knollenberg
- James T. Kolbe
- Ray H. LaHood
- Steve Largent
- Tom Latham
- Steven C. LaTourette
- Jerry Lewis
- Ron Lewis
- James Ross Lightfoot
- John Linder
- Robert Linligthgow Livingston Jr.
- Frank A. LoBiondo
- Zoe Lofgren
- James Longley
- Frank D. Lucas
- Donald A. Manzullo
- Frank Mascara
- James O. McCrery III
- Joseph Michael McDade
- John M. McHugh
- Scott McInnis
- David M. McIntosh
- Jack Metcalf
- John L. Mica
- Dan Miller
- David Minge
- Alan B. Mollohan
- Gillespie V. Montgomery
- John P. Murtha
- John Thomas Myers
- Sue Wilkins Myrick
- George R. Nethercutt Jr.
- Mark W. Neumann
- Robert William Ney
- Charles W. Norwood Jr.
- James L. Oberstar
- David Ross Obey
- Solomon P. Ortiz
- William Orton
- Michael Parker
- L. William Paxon
- Lewis Franklin Payne Jr.
- Collin C. Peterson
- Thomas E. Petri
- Richard W. Pombo
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy
- Rob Portman
- Glenn Poshard
- Deborah D. Pryce
- James Henry Quillen
- George P. Radanovich
- Nick J. Rahall II
- James M. Ramstad
- William Blaine Richardson
- Frank D. Riggs
- Lynn Rivers
- Pat Roberts
- Timothy Roemer
- Harold Rogers
- Dana Rohrabacher
- Toby A. Roth
- Edward R. Royce
- Matt Salmon
- Bernard Sanders
- Mark Sanford
- H. James Saxton
- Joe Scarborough
- Daniel Schaefer
- Andrea Seastrand
- F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.
- John B. Shadegg
- E. Clay Shaw Jr.
- Elmer Greinert Shuster
- David Evans Skaggs
- Joseph Skeen
- Ike Skelton
- Christopher H. Smith
- Lamar Smith
- Linda Smith
- Nick Smith
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon
- Mark Edward Souder
- Floyd Spence
- John McKee Spratt Jr.
- Charles W. Stenholm
- Steve Stockman
- Robert Stump
- James M. Talent
- John S. Tanner
- Randy J. Tate
- William J. Tauzin
- Charles H. Taylor
- Gene Taylor
- Frank Mariano Tejeda
- William M. Thomas
- Mac Thornberry
- Raymond Hoyt Thornton Jr.
- Karen Thurman
- Todd Tiahrt
- James A. Traficant Jr.
- Fred Upton
- Harold Lee Volkmer
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich
- James T. Walsh
- Zach Wamp
- Maxine Waters
- Melvin L. Watt
- J.C. Watts
- David J. Weldon Jr.
- Gerald C. Weller
- Richard Alan White
- Ed Whitfield
- Roger F. Wicker
- John Patrick Williams
- Robert E. Wise Jr.
- C. W. Bill Young
- Don Young
- William H. Zeliff Jr.
Nay (171)
- Gary L. Ackerman
- Robert E. Andrews
- Henry Scott Baesler
- Bill Barrett
- Thomas M. Barrett
- Xavier Becerra
- Anthony Charles Beilenson
- Douglas K. Bereuter
- Howard L. Berman
- Peter I. Blute
- Sherwood L. Boehlert
- David E. Bonior
- Robert A. Borski
- Corrine Brown
- George E. Brown Jr.
- Sherrod Brown
- Stephen E. Buyer
- Charles T. Canady
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Michael N. Castle
- William Lacy Clay Sr.
- Eva Clayton
- William Floyd Clinger Jr.
- James E. Clyburn
- Barbara-Rose Collins
- John Conyers, Jr.
- William J. Coyne
- Peter A. DeFazio
- Rosa L. DeLauro
- Ronald Vernie Dellums
- Peter Deutsch
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart
- Norman D. Dicks
- Julian C. Dixon
- Lloyd Doggett
- Calvin M. Dooley
- Jennifer B. Dunn
- Richard J. Durbin
- Eliot L. Engel
- Anna G. Eshoo
- Sam Farr
- Chaka Fattah
- Harris W. Fawell
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr.
- Cleo Fields
- Bob Filner
- Floyd Harold Flake
- Michael P. Flanagan
- Thomas Michael Foglietta
- Harold Eugene Ford
- Jon D. Fox
- Barney Frank
- Bob Franks
- Gary A. Franks
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen
- Elizabeth Furse
- Elton Gallegly
- Greg Ganske
- Sam Gejdenson
- Richard Andrew Gephardt
- Sam Melville Gibbons
- Wayne T. Gilchrest
- Benjamin Gilman
- Henry Barbosa González
- William F. Goodling
- James C. Greenwood
- Steven Craig Gunderson
- Luis V. Gutiérrez
- Tony P. Hall
- Alcee L. Hastings
- Fred Heineman
- Earl F. Hilliard
- Stephen Horn
- Amory Houghton Jr.
- Steny H. Hoyer
- Duncan L. Hunter
- Henry John Hyde
- Jesse L. Jackson Jr.
- Sheila Jackson Lee
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
- Nancy Lee Johnson
- Harry A. Johnston II
- Marcy Kaptur
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy II
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly
- Dale E. Kildee
- Gerald D. Kleczka
- John J. LaFalce
- Tom Lantos
- Rick A. Lazio
- James A. Leach
- Sander M. Levin
- John Lewis
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- William O. Lipinski
- Nita M. Lowey
- William Luther
- Carolyn B. Maloney
- Thomas J. Manton
- Edward J. Markey
- William J. Martini
- Robert T. Matsui
- Karen McCarthy
- Bill McCollum
- Jim McDermott
- Paul F. McHale Jr.
- Howard P. "Buck" McKeon
- Cynthia McKinney
- Michael R. McNulty
- Martin T. Meehan
- Carrie Meek
- Robert Menendez
- Jan Meyers
- George Miller
- Patsy Takemoto Mink
- Susan Molinari
- Carlos John Moorhead
- James P. Moran
- Constance Morella
- Jerrold Nadler
- Richard E. Neal
- James Allen Nussle
- John W. Olver
- Major R. Owens
- Michael G. Oxley
- Ron Packard
- Frank Pallone, Jr.
- Ed Pastor
- Donald M. Payne
- Nancy Pelosi
- Douglas Brian Peterson
- Owen B. Pickett
- John Edward Porter
- Jack Quinn
- Charles B. Rangel
- Jack Reed
- Ralph Regula
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
- Charles Grandison Rose III
- Marge Roukema
- Lucille Roybal-Allard
- Martin Olav Sabo
- Thomas C. Sawyer
- Steven Harvey Schiff
- Patricia Scott Schroeder
- Charles E. Schumer
- Robert C. "Bobby" Scott
- José E. Serrano
- Christopher H. Shays
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter
- Fortney Pete Stark
- Cliff Stearns
- Gerry Eastman Studds
- Bart T. Stupak
- Bennie G. Thompson
- Peter Gerard Torkildsen
- Esteban Edward Torres
- Robert Torricelli
- Edolphus Towns
- Nydia M. Velázquez
- Bruce F. Vento
- Peter J. Visclosky
- Robert Smith Walker
- Michael Delavan Ward
- W. Curtis Weldon
- Frank R. Wolf
- Lynn C. Woolsey
- Albert Russell Wynn
- Sidney Richard Yates
- Richard Zimmer
Not voting or present (14)
- John Wiley BryantDid not vote
- Jim ChapmanDid not vote
- Helen Chenoweth-HageDid not vote
- Cardiss CollinsDid not vote
- Eligio II de la GarzaDid not vote
- John J. Duncan, Jr.Did not vote
- Gregory H. LaughlinDid not vote
- Matthew G. MartínezDid not vote
- John Joseph MoakleyDid not vote
- Bobby L. RushDid not vote
- Norman SisiskyDid not vote
- Louis StokesDid not vote
- Henry A. WaxmanDid not vote
- Charles WilsonDid not vote
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