Senate Roll Call 656, 93rd Congress · March 13, 1974
TO TABLE SEN. KENNEDY'S AMENDMENT TO TO S. 1401, WHICH WOULD PERMIT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO DIRECT THE U.S. ATTORNEY TO STIPULATE THAT RELEASE OF HOSTAGES WAS A MITIGATING FACTOR.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to establish rational criteria for the mandatory imposition of the sentence of death.
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 “Punitive”
model(0.95): Tabling an amendment to permit mitigating factors kills a reform-oriented provision.
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 (40)
- George David Aiken
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Alan Harvey Bible
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- James Oliver Eastland
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- William Stuart Symington
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (48)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Robert Taft Jr.
- John Varick Tunney
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (13)
- John Glenn Beall Jr.Did not vote
- Wallace Foster BennettDid not vote
- Marlow Webster CookDid not vote
- Norris H. CottonDid not vote
- Peter Hoyt DominickDid not vote
- James William FulbrightDid not vote
- Rupert Vance HartkeDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Michael Joseph MansfieldDid not vote
- Gale William McGeeDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
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