Date: October 2, 1992
Subject: Crime Bill
Description: Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the conference report to mandate a five-day waiting period and a background check for handgun purchases; authorize $3.3 billion for federal, state and local law enforcement; codify the "good-faith" exception to the exclusionary rule; extend the federal death penalty to 53 crimes; and limit federal death row habeas corpus appeals to ones filed within one year from when a petitioner had exhausted all direct appeals. In addition to making law-abiding citizens wait to purchase handguns, this bill would weaken existing laws regarding federal death row appeals.
Result: Cloture Motion Rejected, 55-43
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