Senate Roll Call 657, 95th Congress · January 30, 1978
TO PASS 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 JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Comprehensive recodification contains both punitive expansions and reform measures, moving the issue both ways.
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 (75)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (16)
Not voting or present (8)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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