Senate Roll Call 639, 95th Congress · January 24, 1978
TO TABLE SCOTT AMENDMENT #1659 TO S. 1437. AMENDMENT #1659 STRIKES FROM THE BILL THE PROVISION FOR A UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION.
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 JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.75) The Sentencing Commission has mixed effects on criminal justice reform and sentencing severity.
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 (84)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (8)
Not voting or present (7)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
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