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House Roll Call 51, 105th Congress · March 18, 1997

Victim Allocution Clarification Act — H.R.924 BY MCCOLLUM (R-FL) -- VICTIM RIGHTS CLARIFICATION ACT OF 1997 (PUB.L. 105-6, APPROVED 3/19/97) (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 924, AMENDED, TO AMEND TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE, TO GIVE FURTHER ASSURANCE TO THE RIGHT OF VICTIMS OF CRIME TO ATTEND AND OBSERVE THE TRIALS OF THOSE ACCUSED OF THE CRIME.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

418 yea · 9 nayPassed5 not voting or present
Democrat191 yea · 9 nay
Republican226 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 924 ↗

Victim Rights Clarification 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(0.85): Expanding crime victims' rights in criminal proceedings aligns with a punitive crime-control approach.

    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 (418)

Nay (9)

Not voting or present (5)

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