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Senate Roll Call 652, 95th Congress · January 27, 1978

TO TABLE ALLEN AMENDMENT #1138 TO THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT (SEE RC 14) TO S. 1437. AMENDMENT #1138 STATES THAT A PERSON ACCUSED OF DISSEMINATING OBSCENE MATERIALS HAS A DEFENSE IF THE DISSEMINATION OF THAT MATERIAL HAS BEEN LEGALIZED BY STATUTE IN THE STATE IN WHICH THE MATERIAL WAS DISTRIBUTED.

46 yea · 29 nay23 not voting or present
Democrat33 yea · 14 nay
Republican13 yea · 15 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(0.90): Tabling an amendment creating a statutory defense removes 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 (47)

Nay (29)

Not voting or present (23)

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