Senate Roll Call 470, 98th Congress · May 17, 1984
TO AMEND H.R. 2163 TO EARMARK CERTAIN FUNDS TO ALLEVIATE PRISON AND JAIL OVERCROWDING IN FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL FACILITIES. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 27
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to amend the Federal Boat Safety Act of 1971, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Sports and Recreation — 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): Funding to alleviate prison overcrowding represents criminal justice reform.
Tagged by: keyword:prison
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 (36)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
Nay (60)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (4)
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Roger William JepsenDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
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