Senate Roll Call 637, 95th Congress · January 23, 1978
TO TABLE THE HART AMENDMENT TO S. 1437, THE BILL REVISING AND REFORMING THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE UNITED STATES. HART AMENDMENT #1011 PROHIBITS IMPRISONMENT FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF REHABILITATION OF A DEFENDANT.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Criminal Code Reform 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 “Punitive”
model(0.85): Tabling an amendment prohibiting imprisonment solely for rehabilitation preserves punitive sentencing options.
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 (71)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (14)
Not voting or present (13)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- J. Strom ThurmondDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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