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Senate Roll Call 129, 106th Congress · May 19, 1999

To encourage States to incarcerate individuals convicted of murder, rape, or child molestation.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

81 yea · 17 nayAmendment Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat35 yea · 9 nay
Republican45 yea · 7 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 254

Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Accountability and Rehabilitation Act of 1999

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): Encouraging states to incarcerate individuals 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 (81)

Nay (17)

Not voting or present (2)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.