William M. Cowan on Criminal Justice

DemocratMA

Criminal Justice3 votes

Reform-orientedPunitive

17 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Criminal Justice. 3 of them counted toward the score above: 2 toward “Reform-oriented” and 1 toward “Punitive”.

The other 14 did not count: 13 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 1 was one they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
2013-04-18	To reauthorize and improve programs related to mental health and substance use disorders.S. 649 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay
2013-04-18	To withhold 5 percent of Community Oriented Policing Services program Federal funding from States and local governments that release sensitive and confidential information on law-abiding gun owners and victims of domestic violence.S. 649 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Did not vote	Direction not readable
2013-04-17	To regulate large capacity ammunition feeding devices.S. 649 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2013-04-17	To protect the Second Amendment rights of veterans and their families.S. 649 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2013-04-17	To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.S. 649 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2013-04-17	To allow reciprocity for the carrying of certain concealed firearms.S. 649 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2013-04-17	To increase public safety by punishing and deterring firearms trafficking.S. 649 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Punitive
2013-04-17	To address gun violence, improve the availability of records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, address mental illness in the criminal justice system, and end straw purchases and trafficking of illegal firearms, and for other purposes.S. 649 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2013-04-17	To protect Second Amendment rights, ensure that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm are listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and provide a responsible and consistent background check process.S. 649 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2013-04-11	A bill to ensure that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm are listed in the national instant criminal background check system and require a background check for every firearm sale, and for other purposes.S. 649 · 113th Congress · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Direction not readable
2013-02-12	A bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.S. 47 · 113th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Reform-oriented
2013-02-12	To amend the requirements for speedy notice to victims and to require a report to Congress.S. 47 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2013-02-12	To more quickly resolve rape cases and reduce the deficit by consolidating unnecessary duplication within the Department of Justice.S. 47 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2013-02-12	To clarify that child victims of sex trafficking are eligible to receive assistance under grants provided to enhance the safety of youth and children.S. 47 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Reform-oriented
2013-02-12	To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2014 through 2017 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes.S. 47 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2013-02-11	To reaffirm the inalienable rights of every American citizen guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.S. 47 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2013-02-07	In the nature of a substitute.S. 47 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Reform-oriented / Punitive axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.