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House Roll Call 791, 105th Congress · May 19, 1998

Limit the Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts with Respect to Prison Release Orders — H.R.3718 BY DELAY (R-TX) -- JURISDICTIONAL LIMITATION OF FEDERAL COURTS, PROVISION (HOUSE VOTED TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS, H.R. 3718, TO LIMIT THE JURISDICTION OF THE FEDERAL COURTS WITH RESPECT TO PRISON RELEASE ORDERS.)

Question before the chamber: Suspend the rules and pass

352 yea · 53 nayPassed27 not voting or present
Democrat139 yea · 50 nay
Republican213 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3718 ↗

To limit the jurisdiction of the Federal courts with respect to prison release orders.

Policy area: Law — 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(0.90): Restricting judicial authority to order prison releases maintains or increases incarceration.

    Tagged by: keyword:prison

    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 (352)

Nay (53)

Not voting or present (27)

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