Senate Roll Call 641, 95th Congress · January 25, 1978
TO AMEND S. 1437 BY ALLOWING STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO APPLY THEIR OWN STANDARDS OF OBSCENITY.
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): Allowing local obscenity standards facilitates easier prosecution, taking a more punitive approach.
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 (49)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (41)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (9)
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Richard Schultz SchweikerDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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