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House Roll Call 116, 105th Congress · May 8, 1997

Juvenile Crime Control Act — (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 3, TO COMBAT VIOLENT YOUTH CRIME AND INCREASE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR JUVENILE CRIMINAL OFFENSES.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

286 yea · 132 nayPassed15 not voting or present
Democrat76 yea · 121 nay
Republican210 yea · 10 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 “Punitive”

    model(0.95): Passing juvenile crime legislation that increases penalties moves toward a more punitive justice system.

    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 (286)

Nay (132)

Not voting or present (15)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.