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House Roll Call 106, 104th Congress · February 9, 1995

(HOUSE REJECTED THE SCHUMER AMENDMENT ELIMINATING THE PRISON GRANT PROGRAMS, INCLUDING THE GENERAL PRISON BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM AND THE TRUTH-IN-SENTENCING INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM; CONSOLIDATING THE VIOLENT OFFENDER AND TRUTH-IN-SENTENCING GRANT PROGRAMS INTO A SINGLE PRISON BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM; PROVIDING THAT EACH STATE WOULD RECEIVE A PRISON BLOCK GRANT BASED ON THE NUMBER OF VIOLENT CRIMES AMONG THE STATES; PROVIDING THAT THE BLOCK GRANT WOULD BE FUNDED AT THE SAME ANNUAL LEVEL AS THE TOTAL STATE FUNDING PROVIDED IN THE 1994 CRIME CONTROL ACT; AND PROVIDING THAT STATES THAT FAILED TO USE THEIR ALLOCATED GRANT FUNDING WITHIN TWO YEARS WOULD BE REQUIRED TO REFUND UNUSED MONEYS TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR LATER DISTRIBUTION TO STATES.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

179 yea · 251 nayFailed4 not voting or present
Democrat171 yea · 24 nay
Republican7 yea · 227 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 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 “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.85): Eliminating strict truth-in-sentencing mandates for grants moves away from punitive criminal justice.

    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 (179)

Nay (251)

Not voting or present (4)

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