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Senate Roll Call 653, 95th Congress · January 27, 1978

TO AMEND THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT (SEE RC 14) TO S. 1437 BY STATING THAT THE DEFENDANT IN A CASE OF DISSEMINATION OF OBSCENE MATERIALS HAS A DEFENSE IF THE DISSEMINATION OF THAT MATERIAL HAS BEEN LEGALIZED IN THE "POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OR LOCALITY" IN WHICH THE MATERIAL WAS DISTRIBUTED.

74 yea · 0 nay23 not voting or present
Democrat47 yea · 0 nay
Republican28 yea · 0 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 “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.90): Providing defendants a legal defense based on local legality protects accused individuals.

    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 (76)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (23)

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