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House Roll Call 829, 104th Congress · December 12, 1995

DNA Identification Grants Improvement — H.R.2418 BY MCCOLLUM (R-FL) -- DNA IDENTIFICATION GRANTS IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1995 (HOUSE VOTED TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 2418, AMENDED, TO IMPROVE THE CAPABILITY TO ANALYZE DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID. .)

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

407 yea · 5 nayPassed20 not voting or present
Democrat177 yea · 4 nay
Republican229 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2418 ↗

DNA Identification Grants Improvement 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) Improving DNA forensic technology does not directly align with punitive versus reform criminal justice poles.

    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 (407)

Nay (5)

Not voting or present (20)

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