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Senate Roll Call 638, 95th Congress · January 24, 1978

TO TABLE THE SCOTT AMENDMENT #1660 TO S. 1437. AMENDMENT #1660 STRIKES FROM THE BILL A SECTION THAT GIVES THE DEFENDANT OR THE GOVERNMENT THE RIGHT TO APPEAL A SENTENCE THAT FALLS OUTSIDE OF THE REGULATIONS ESTABLISHED BY THE U.S. SENTENCING COMMISSION.

83 yea · 9 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat56 yea · 1 nay
Republican28 yea · 8 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1437

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 “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.85): Tabling an amendment that eliminates sentence appeals preserves appeal rights for defendants.

    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 (85)

Nay (9)

Not voting or present (5)

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