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Senate Roll Call 27, 101st Congress · April 5, 1989

To eliminate the reward provisions of the Major Fraud Act Amendments of 1989. — TO ADOPT THE BUMPERS AMENDMENT TO S 248, MAJOR FRAUD ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1989, TO GET RID OF REWARD PROVISIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO INFORM THE THE GOVERNMENT ABOUT FRAUD COMMITTED BY CONTRACTORS.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

55 yea · 43 nayMotion to Table Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat22 yea · 31 nay
Republican32 yea · 12 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 248 ↗

Major Fraud Act Amendments of 1989

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(0.90): Tabling the amendment preserves whistleblower rewards, maintaining stronger anti-fraud enforcement.

    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 (55)

Nay (44)

Not voting or present (1)

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