Senate Roll Call 649, 95th Congress · January 26, 1978
TO AGREE TO SEVERAL COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS TO S. 1437, THE EFFECT OF WHICH WOULD BE TO MODIFY THE VENUE PROVISIONS FOR OBSCENITY PRACTICES SO THAT THE DEFENDANT MAY BE PROSECUTED ONLY IN THE DISTRICT IN WHICH THE MATERIAL WAS DISSEMINATED OR THE DISTRICT IN WHICH THE OFFENSE WAS COMPLETED.
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(0.85): Restricting prosecution venue protects defendants against prosecutorial forum shopping.
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 (48)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- 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
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (40)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- 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
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (11)
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Carl Thomas CurtisDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- Richard Schultz SchweikerDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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