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House Roll Call 99, 104th Congress · February 8, 1995

H.R.729 BY MCCOLLUM (R-FL) -- EFFECTIVE DEATH PENALTY ACT OF 1995 (HOUSE REJECTED THE SCHUMER AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO ENCOURAGE STATES TO PROVIDE COMPETENT COUNSEL IN DEATH PENALTY CASES DURING THE INITIAL TRIAL PHASE.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

149 yea · 282 nayFailed3 not voting or present
Democrat147 yea · 49 nay
Republican1 yea · 233 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(0.90): Encouraging competent counsel for capital defendants moves toward criminal justice reform.

    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 (149)

Nay (282)

Not voting or present (3)

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