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House Roll Call 105, 104th Congress · February 9, 1995

H.R.667 BY MCCOLLUM (R-FL) -- VIOLENT CRIMINAL INCARCERATION ACT OF 1995 (HOUSE REJECTED THE CHAPMAN AMENDMENT PROHIBITING THE EXPENDITURE OF ANY PRISON GRANT FUNDING, INCLUDING FUNDING FOR THE GENERAL PRISON GRANT PROGRAM AND THE TRUTH-IN-SENTENCING INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM, UNTIL AND UNLESS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL CERTIFIES THAT AT LEAST FIFTY PERCENT OF STATES MEET TRUTH-IN-SENTENCING REQUIREMENTS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

169 yea · 261 nayFailed4 not voting or present
Democrat163 yea · 33 nay
Republican6 yea · 227 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 667 ↗

Violent Criminal Incarceration Act of 1995

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(0.85): Conditioning grants on truth-in-sentencing mandates stricter, more punitive sentencing laws.

    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 (169)

Nay (261)

Not voting or present (4)

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