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House Roll Call 593, 93rd Congress · March 13, 1974

TO AMEND H.R. 3858 BY MAKING THE DEATH PENALTY DISCRETIONARY RATHER THAN MANDATORY IN CERTAIN CASES.

162 yea · 239 nay30 not voting or present
Democrat119 yea · 107 nay
Republican44 yea · 131 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(0.90): Making the death penalty discretionary rather than mandatory reduces strict penal severity.

    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 (163)

Nay (239)

Not voting or present (30)

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