House Roll Call 783, 99th Congress · September 11, 1986

TO AMEND HR 5484 TO PERMIT THE IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY FOR INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN CERTAIN CONTINUING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE DRUG OFFENSES.

296 yea · 112 nay19 not voting or present

Democrat130 yea · 103 nay

Republican166 yea · 10 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): Permitting the death penalty for drug offenses creates an extreme punitive measure.
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 (298)

Nay (114)

Not voting or present (19)

Gary L. AckermanDid not vote
Frederick C. BoucherDid not vote
John B. BreauxDid not vote
Sala Galante BurtonDid not vote
William CarneyDid not vote
Eugene A. ChappieDid not vote
Richard Andrew GephardtDid not vote
John GrotbergDid not vote
Thomas Forbes HartnettDid not vote
Thomas Jerald HuckabyDid not vote
Edward J. MarkeyDid not vote
David Ross ObeyDid not vote
James R. OlinDid not vote
Eldon Dean RuddDid not vote
Richard Taylor SchulzeDid not vote
Marion Gene SnyderDid not vote
Samuel Studdiford StrattonDid not vote
Jamie Lloyd WhittenDid not vote
Don YoungDid not vote

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