Senate Roll Call 647, 95th Congress · January 26, 1978
TO TABLE THE MATHIAS AMENDMENT TO S. 1437. THE MATHIAS AMENDMENT MODIFIES THE VENUE PROVISIONS FOR OBSCENITY CHARGES SO THAT THE DEFENDANT MAY BE PROSECUTED IN THE DISTRICT IN WHICH THE OBSCENE MATERIALS WERE MAILED OR RECEIVED, OR IN THE DISTRICT WHERE THE DEFENDANT'S PRIMARY PLACE OF BUSINESS IS LOCATED.
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(0.80): Tabling an amendment allowing prosecution in any receiving district prevents broad prosecutorial venue selection.
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 (61)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- 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
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (26)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- Ted F. Stevens
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (12)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Carl Thomas CurtisDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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