What was the vote on H.R.3355?

Factual Questions
1

Right then. The law known as the ‘Assult Weapons Ban’ (mercifuly since expired), was enacted under H.R.3355. Here is the .gov page on the matter, but it is as Greek to me.

My questions:

  1. What was the House vote, broken down by party?

  2. What was the Senate vote, broken down by party?

2

Here’s the Senate vote: rollcall #0384. It passed overwhelmingly (95-4), so the R-D split doesn’t meant much.

There doesn’t seem to be a House roll-call vote, just “11/3/1993 Measure passed House, amended”. So maybe it was a voice vote?

3

Okay, here’s what I’ve found:
Senate:
Yea: 95, No: 4, Absent: 1
The No votes were 2 Republicans and 2 Democrats (Durenberger (R-MN), Feingold (D-WI), Hatfield (R-OR), Simon (D-IL)) . The Absent was a D (Dorgan (D-ND)).

House

4

The votes on the conference report were as follows: (ie, not the first versions of the legislation that passed the House and Senate in differing forms, but the compromise legislation that was actually signed into law. SmackFu referenced the first Senate version of the bill only, not the conference report.) Also keep in mind that this bill dealt with many crime issues, not just the assault weapons ban.

House vote: 235 to 195 (Dems: 188 to 64, R’s: 46 to 131)
Senate vote: 61 to 38 (no party breakdown, but see the vote by member here)

5

Damn you, SmackFu!

:wink:

6

On further review, it looks like the partisan votes were only after it came back from commitee. I wonder what why that was? Did they add something very controversial in there?

House - R 46-131 / D 188-64 (Y-N)
Senate - R 6-36 / D 55-2 (my count, may be wrong)

7

The votes on the conference report were as follows: (ie, not the first versions of the legislation that passed the House and Senate in differing forms, but the compromise legislation that was actually signed into law.) Also keep in mind that this bill dealt with many crime issues, not just the assault weapons ban.

House vote: 235 to 195 (Dems: 188 to 64, R’s: 46 to 131)
Senate vote: 61 to 38 (no party breakdown, but see the vote by member here)

8

The SDMB amazes me. Those are just the counts are I was looking for. Thanks to all!