House Roll Call 1138, 96th Congress · September 9, 1980

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 7817, AMENDING OR DISAPPROVING CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO THE FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND THE FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE PROPOSED BY THE SUPREME COURT AND TO AMEND CHAPTER 31 OF TITLE 18, U.S. CODE, RELATING TO PROBATION. (MOTION FAILED; 2/3 REQUIRED)

241 yea · 145 nay42 not voting or present

Democrat204 yea · 33 nay

Republican38 yea · 112 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 7817 ↗

A bill to amend or disapprove certain amendments to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence proposed by the Supreme Court, and to amend chapter 231 of title 18, United States Code (Relating to probation).

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 (0.85) Modifying criminal procedure and evidence rules is too vague to classify as punitive or reform-oriented.
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 (244)

Nay (146)

Not voting or present (42)

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