Senate Roll Call 731, 96th Congress · June 18, 1980
TO TABLE HELMS AMENDMENT TO S. 2377 THAT ESTABLISHED RATIONAL CRITERIA FOR THE IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 31
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1981
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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(0.80): Tabling an amendment establishing death penalty criteria blocks a punitive criminal justice measure.
Tagged by: keyword:death penalty
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 (38)
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (50)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- James Albertus McClure
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (12)
- Quentin Northrup BurdickDid not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.Did not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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