House Roll Call 767, 105th Congress · May 12, 1998

Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act — H.R.3811 BY HYDE (R-IL) -- DEADBEAT PARENTS PUNISHMENT ACT OF 1998 (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 3811, TO ESTABLISH FELONY VIOLATIONS FOR THE FAILURE TO PAY LEGAL CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS. .)

Question before the chamber: Suspend the rules and pass

402 yea · 16 nayPassed14 not voting or present

Democrat186 yea · 8 nay

Republican215 yea · 8 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3811 ↗

Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998

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): Establishing new felony violations for unpaid child support increases punitive measures.
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 (402)

Nay (16)

Not voting or present (14)

Herbert H. BatemanDid not vote
Jon Lynn ChristensenDid not vote
Wayne T. GilchrestDid not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezDid not vote
James C. GreenwoodDid not vote
Jane HarmanDid not vote
Willie Gathrel HefnerDid not vote
Carolyn Cheeks KilpatrickDid not vote
Robert MenendezDid not vote
Alan B. MollohanDid not vote
Sue Wilkins MyrickDid not vote
Nick J. Rahall IIDid not vote
Charles E. SchumerDid not vote
David Evans SkaggsDid not vote

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