House Roll Call 591, 93rd Congress · March 13, 1974

TO AMEND H.R. 3858, THE ANTI-HIJACKING ACT, BY ELIMINATING THE DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT FOR HIJACKING.

121 yea · 286 nay24 not voting or present

Democrat89 yea · 137 nay

Republican32 yea · 149 nay

Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3858 ↗

Anti-Hijacking Act

Policy area: Transportation and Public Works — 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(0.95): Eliminating the death penalty is a reform-oriented move away from severe punishment.
Tagged by: keyword:death penalty
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 (121)

Nay (287)

Not voting or present (24)

Corinne Claiborne BoggsDid not vote
Frank James BrascoDid not vote
John Bayne BreckinridgeDid not vote
Jack Bascom BrooksDid not vote
Hugh Leo CareyDid not vote
Harold Reginald CollierDid not vote
Robert Lawrence CoughlinDid not vote
John D. DingellDid not vote
Kenneth James GrayDid not vote
Richard Thomas HannaDid not vote
Robert Cameron McEwenDid not vote
Koln Gunn McKayDid not vote
Robert Henry MichelDid not vote
John Emerson MossDid not vote
John Michael MurphyDid not vote
John William Wright PatmanDid not vote
Claude Denson PepperDid not vote
Bertram L. PodellDid not vote
Charles B. RangelDid not vote
Howard Winfield RobisonDid not vote
John James RooneyDid not vote
Frank Thompson Jr.Present
Charles WilsonDid not vote
Lester Lionel WolffDid not vote

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