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Senate Roll Call 678, 104th Congress · April 17, 1996

A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes. — (SENATE TABLED A MOTION TO RECOMMIT THE CONFERENCE REPORT WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO INCLUDE A PROVISION TO ALLOW FOR MULTI-POINT WIRETAPS WHICH WOULD ALLOW LAW ENFORCEMENT TO GET A WIRETAP WHEN A SUBJECT USES MANY DIFFERENT PHONES AND THEREBY THWARTS SURVEILLANCE.)

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

58 yea · 40 nayMotion to Table Motion to Recommit Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat7 yea · 39 nay
Republican50 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(0.85): Tabling the motion blocks expanding wiretap surveillance powers.

    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 (58)

Nay (40)

Not voting or present (2)

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