Senate Roll Call 383, 98th Congress · February 7, 1984
TO PASS S. 1764, A BILL AMENDING THE FEDERAL CRIMINAL CODE TO PROVIDE THAT EVIDENCE OBTAINED BY A SEARCH OR SEIZURE SHALL NOT BE EXCLUDED IN A PROCEEDING IF THE SEIZURE WAS UNDERTAKEN IN A REASONABLE GOOD FAITH BELIEF IN ITS CONFORMITY WITH THE FOURTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Exclusionary Rule Limitation Act of 1983
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(0.95): Establishing a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule weakens accused rights.
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 (63)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (24)
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (13)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Paula HawkinsDid not vote
- Jacob Chic HechtDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
- John W. WarnerDid not vote
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