Senate Roll Call 660, 93rd Congress · March 13, 1974
TO TABLE SEN. KENNEDY'S AMENDMENT TO S. 1401, TO BAN THE SALE OF CHEAP HANDGUNS, REQUIRE REGISTRATION OF ALL HANDGUNS, REQUIRE REGISTRATION OF ALL HANDGUNS, AND REQUIRE LICENSING OF ALL HANDGUN OWNERS.
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 JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Handgun regulation does not align with the punitive versus reform-oriented criminal justice axis.
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 (69)
- James George Abourezk
- George David Aiken
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Alan Harvey Bible
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Frank Edward Moss
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (21)
- Edward William Brooke III
- Clifford Philip Case
- Alan Cranston
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- John Varick Tunney
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (11)
- Wallace Foster BennettDid not vote
- Norris H. CottonDid not vote
- Peter Hoyt DominickDid not vote
- Hiram Leong FongDid not vote
- James William FulbrightDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Michael Joseph MansfieldDid not vote
- Walter Frederick MondaleDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
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