House Roll Call 779, 99th Congress · September 11, 1986

TO AMEND HR 5484 TO REQUIRE MANDATORY LIFE SENTENCES WITHOUT PAROLE FOR PERSONS AT LEAST 21 YEARS OF AGE CONVICTED A SECOND TIME FOR DISTRIBUTION OF DANGEROUS DRUGS TO PERSONS UNDER AGE 21 AND FOR DISTRIBUTION IN OR NEAR SCHOOLS.

355 yea · 54 nay21 not voting or present

Democrat178 yea · 53 nay

Republican175 yea · 1 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5484 ↗

Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986

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): Mandating life sentences without parole increases punitive criminal penalties.
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 (355)

Nay (55)

Not voting or present (21)

Gary L. AckermanDid not vote
William Hill BonerDid not vote
John B. BreauxDid not vote
George E. Brown Jr.Did not vote
Sala Galante BurtonDid not vote
Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr.Did not vote
Eugene A. ChappieDid not vote
Joseph Matthew GaydosDid not vote
John GrotbergDid not vote
Thomas Jerald HuckabyDid not vote
Edward J. MarkeyDid not vote
Parren James MitchellDid not vote
Eldon Dean RuddDid not vote
Claudine SchneiderDid not vote
Gerald Edward SikorskiDid not vote
Floyd SpenceDid not vote
Samuel Studdiford StrattonDid not vote
Wes WatkinsDid not vote
James Howard WeaverDid not vote
Jamie Lloyd WhittenDid not vote
Don YoungDid not vote

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