Senate Roll Call 386, 98th Congress · February 23, 1984
TO AMEND S. 52, A BILL ESTABLISHING A MANDATORY SENTENCE OF 15 YEARS TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT TO COMBAT CRIMES OF ARMED ROBBERY AND ARMED BURGLARY. THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT PROVIDES FOR AN ENHANCED PENALTY FOR CAREER ROBBERS AND BURGLARS. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Armed Career Criminal 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): Adopting enhanced penalties and mandatory sentences increases criminal punishment.
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 (77)
- 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
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- 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
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- 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.
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (12)
Not voting or present (11)
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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