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Senate Roll Call 675, 104th Congress · April 16, 1996

A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes. — S.735 BY DOLE (R-KS) -- EFFECTIVE DEATH PENALTY AND PUBLIC SAFETY ACT OF 1996 (SENATE TABLED A MOTION TO RECOMMIT THE CONFERENCE REPORT WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT BACK WITH PROVISIONS TO ALLOW THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO REQUEST MILITARY TECHNICAL AND LOGISTICAL SUPPORT IN AN EMERGENCY INVOLVING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table the Motion to Recommit

50 yea · 46 nayMotion to Table Motion to Recommit Agreed to4 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 45 nay
Republican48 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 735 ↗

Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty 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.

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.80): Tabling the motion blocks expanding military involvement in law enforcement.

    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 (50)

Nay (46)

Not voting or present (4)

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