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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.

49 yea · 41 nay9 not voting or present
Democrat24 yea · 32 nay
Republican24 yea · 9 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 “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)

Nay (41)

Not voting or present (9)

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