Senate Roll Call 645, 95th Congress · January 25, 1978
TO TABLE SCOTT AMENDMENT #1115 TO S. 1437. AMENDMENT #1115 EMBODIES THE TEXT OF S. 1382, A BILL THAT INCREASES THE NUMBER AND TYPES OF CRIMES THAT ARE PUNISHABLE BY DEATH.
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 “Reform-oriented”
model(0.95): Tabling an amendment expanding the death penalty prevents the expansion of capital punishment.
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 (65)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- 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
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- 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
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (24)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (10)
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.