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House Roll Call 109, 104th Congress · February 10, 1995

(HOUSE REJECTED THE CHAPMAN AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO MAKE STATES ELIGIBLE FOR BOTH GENERAL AND "TRUTH IN SENTENCING" PRISON GRANTS RATHER THAN EITHER ONE OR THE OTHER.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

176 yea · 248 nayFailed11 not voting or present
Democrat161 yea · 29 nay
Republican14 yea · 219 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 JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Modifying grant program eligibility rules does not clearly align with punitive or reform-oriented axes.

    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 (176)

Nay (248)

Not voting or present (11)

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