Senate Roll Call 75, 93rd Congress · April 3, 1973
TO TABLE TALMADGE (D,GA)-BAYH (D,IND) AMENDMENT TO S.800, OMNIBUS VICTIMS OF CRIME ACT OF 1973. TALMADGE-BAYH AMENDMENT RELATES TO SENTENCES FOR FELONIES WITH FIRE-ARMS AND FOR DRUG-PUSHERS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Victims of Crime Act
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 “Reform-oriented”
model(0.90): Tabling an amendment that increases criminal sentences kills the punitive provision.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Criminal sentencing for firearm and drug offenses is not a spending or budget axis.
Tagged by: keyword:omnibus
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (18)
- James George Abourezk
- George David Aiken
- Clifford Philip Case
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Charles Harting Percy
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- John Varick Tunney
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (76)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- 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
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Norris H. Cotton
- Alan Cranston
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Peter Hoyt Dominick
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Hiram Leong Fong
- James William Fulbright
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Frank Edward Moss
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- William Stuart Symington
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (6)
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Paul Jones FanninDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- William Bart SaxbeDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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