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House Roll Call 1190, 104th Congress · July 17, 1996

Government Accountability Act of 1996 — H.R.3166 BY MARTINI (R-NJ) -- FALSE STATEMENTS ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 1996 (HOUSE VOTED TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 3166, AMENDED, TO AMEND TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE, WITH RESPECT TO THE CRIME OF FALSE STATEMENT IN A GOVERNMENT MATTER.)

Question before the chamber: Suspend the rules and pass, as amended

417 yea · 6 nayPassed10 not voting or present
Democrat189 yea · 2 nay
Republican227 yea · 4 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3166 ↗

False Statements Accountability Act of 1996

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): Clarifying and maintaining criminal liability for false statements to government officials is punitive.

    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 (417)

Nay (6)

Not voting or present (10)

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