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Senate Roll Call 138, 106th Congress · May 20, 1999

To establish a commission to study the motion picture industry and make recommendations to Congress and the President to promote accountability in the motion picture industry in order to reduce juvenile access to violent, pornographic, or other harmful material in motion pictures.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

41 yea · 56 nayAmendment Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat4 yea · 39 nay
Republican37 yea · 15 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 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 JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Establishing a commission to study media violence is procedural and off-axis.

    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 (41)

Nay (56)

Not voting or present (3)

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.