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House Roll Call 1013, 104th Congress · May 7, 1996

(HOUSE REJECTED THE WATT AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO HAVE THE UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION REVIEW THE FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES TO DETERMINE AN APPROPRIATE SENTENCING ENHANCEMENT FOR CRIMES AND VIOLENCE COMMITTED AGAINST VULNERABLE PERSONS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

41 yea · 370 nayFailed22 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 146 nay
Republican3 yea · 223 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2974 ↗

Crimes Against Children and Elderly Persons Increased Punishment Act

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 “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.85): Replaces rigid statutory penalty increases with flexible Sentencing Commission review.

    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 (41)

Nay (370)

Not voting or present (22)

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