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Senate Roll Call 33, 105th Congress · March 19, 1997

A joint resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Attorney General should exercise her best professional judgement, without regard to political pressures, on whether to invoke the independent counsel process to investigate alleged criminal misconduct relating to any election campaign. — (SENATE TABLED S.J.RES. 23, EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE CONGESS THAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SHOULD EXERCISE HER BEST PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT, WITHOUT REGARD TO POLITICAL PRESSURES, ON WHETHER TO INVOKE THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL PROCESS TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGED CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT RELATING TO ANY ELECTION CAMPAIGN.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

58 yea · 41 nayMotion to Table Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat4 yea · 40 nay
Republican53 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.J.Res. 23 ↗

A joint resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Attorney General should exercise her best professional judgement, without regard to political pressures, on whether to invoke the independent counsel process to investigate alleged criminal misconduct relating to any election campaign.

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 JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Non-binding sense-of-Congress resolutions do not carry statutory policy changes.

    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 (41)

Not voting or present (1)

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