House Roll Call 652, 105th Congress · February 25, 1998

Witness Protection and Interstate Relocation Act — (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 2181, TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF WITNESSES AND TO PROMOTE NOTIFICATION OF THE INTERSTATE RELOCATION OF WITNESSES BY STATES AND LOCALITIES ENGAGING IN THAT RELOCATION.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

366 yea · 49 nayPassed15 not voting or present

Democrat143 yea · 46 nay

Republican222 yea · 3 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2181 ↗

Witness Protection and Interstate Relocation 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 criminal enforcement and penalties for witness interference moves toward a more punitive criminal justice 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 (366)

Nay (49)

Not voting or present (15)

Corrine BrownDid not vote
Harold E. Ford Jr.Did not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezDid not vote
Tony P. HallDid not vote
Ron KlinkDid not vote
Dennis J. KucinichPresent
William LutherDid not vote
John L. MicaDid not vote
George MillerDid not vote
Jerrold NadlerDid not vote
L. William PaxonDid not vote
Nancy PelosiDid not vote
Glenn PoshardDid not vote
Loretta SanchezDid not vote
Steven Harvey SchiffDid not vote

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