Senate Roll Call 654, 95th Congress · January 27, 1978
TO AGREE TO THE MODIFIED COMMITTEE AMENDMENT (SEE RC 17) TO S. 1437.
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): Agreeing to the modified committee amendment protects defendants through venue restrictions and local defenses.
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 (60)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- 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
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- 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.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (14)
Not voting or present (25)
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- John Chester CulverDid 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
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid 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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