Senate Roll Call 374, 98th Congress · January 30, 1984
TO TABLE THE MATHIAS AMENDMENT TO S. 1762, A BILL PROPOSING A COMPREHENSIVE CRIME CONTROL ACT. THE MATHIAS AMENDMENT MAINTAINS THE CURRENT AGGREGATE LENGTH OF TERM OF IMPRISONMENT. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984
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 “Punitive”
model(0.85): Tabling an amendment that would keep prison sentence lengths from increasing.
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 (76)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (1)
Not voting or present (23)
- Rudolph Eli BoschwitzDid not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Roger William JepsenDid not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.Did not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Don NicklesDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Paul S. SarbanesDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.Did not vote
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