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Roll Call Vote #71 · 101st Congress · Session 2 · Apr 27, 1990, 4:05 PM (ET)

On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 1550 to H.R. 4404 (Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Assistance, Food Stamps, Unemployment Compensation Administration, and Other Urgent Needs, and Transfers, and Reducing Funds Budgeted for Military Spending Act of 1990)

Amendment S.Amdt. 1550 (To provide the death penalty in the District of Columbia for a drug-related murder.)

Motion to Table Failed (27-60)
27 Yea
60 Nay
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How the Parties Voted

Democrat 53 senators

20 Yea / 29 Nay

4 not voting or present

Majority position: Nay

Republican 42 senators

6 Yea / 28 Nay

8 not voting or present

Majority position: Nay

Independent 1 senator

1 Yea / 0 Nay

Majority position: Yea

Independent Democrat 1 senator

0 Yea / 1 Nay

Majority position: Nay

Crossed Party Lines

Full Roll Call: How Every Senator Voted

Yea 27

Nay 60

Not Voting 12

Source: Official U.S. Senate roll call vote data (senate.gov ↗).