Senate Roll Call 581, 97th Congress · April 27, 1982
TO CLOSE DEBATE ON A MOTION TO PROCEED TO CONSIDER S. 1630, A BILL REFORMING FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAWS AND STREAMLINING THE ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE. (MOTION FAILED;3/5 REQUIRED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Criminal Code Reform Act of 1981
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): Voting for cloture advances a bill reforming federal criminal laws.
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 (46)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (46)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (8)
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Roger William JepsenDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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