Senate Roll Call 650, 95th Congress · January 27, 1978
TO TABLE A COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO S. 1437 THAT STATES THAT A PERSON ACCUSED OF DISSEMINATING OBSCENE MATERIALS MAY HAVE A DEFENSE IF THE DISSEMINATION OF THAT MATERIAL WAS LEGAL IN THE STATE IN WHICH IT OCCURRED.
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(0.90): Tabling an amendment providing a legal defense eliminates a protection for defendants.
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 (21)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Robert C. Byrd
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (55)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (23)
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Paul Gerhart HatfieldDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.Did not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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