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House Roll Call 113, 105th Congress · May 8, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE LOFGREN AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO USE JUVENILE ACCOUNTABILITY BLOCK GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED PROGRAMS TO PREVENT YOUNG AMERICANS FROM BECOMING INVOLVED IN CRIME OR GANGS AND REQUIRES THAT NOT LESS THAN 50 PERCENT OF THE GRANT AMOUNT RECEIVED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS BE USED FOR THESE PREVENTION PROGRAMS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

191 yea · 227 nayFailed15 not voting or present
Democrat182 yea · 14 nay
Republican8 yea · 213 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3 ↗

Juvenile Crime Control Act of 1997

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(0.90): Directs juvenile block grant funding toward crime prevention programs rather than detention.

    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 (191)

Nay (227)

Not voting or present (15)

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