House Roll Call 656, 105th Congress · February 26, 1998

Wireless Telephone Protection Act — H.R.2460 BY JOHNSON, SAM (R-TX) -- WIRELESS TELEPHONE PROTECTION ACT (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 2460, TO AMEND TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE, WITH RESPECT TO SCANNING RECEIVERS AND SIMILAR DEVICES.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

414 yea · 1 nayPassed15 not voting or present

Democrat192 yea · 0 nay

Republican222 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2460 ↗

Wireless Telephone Protection Act

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): Criminalizing scanning devices and telephone cloning creates new penalties, moving toward a more punitive 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 (414)

Nay (1)

Ron Paul

Not voting or present (15)

Corrine BrownDid not vote
Tom CampbellDid not vote
Chaka FattahDid not vote
Harold E. Ford Jr.Did not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezDid not vote
Doc HastingsDid not vote
Ron KlinkDid not vote
William LutherDid not vote
George MillerDid not vote
Anne Meagher NorthupDid not vote
Nancy PelosiDid not vote
Glenn PoshardDid not vote
Bernard SandersDid not vote
Joe ScarboroughDid not vote
Steven Harvey SchiffDid not vote

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