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Senate Roll Call 219, 106th Congress · July 22, 1999

To clarify the treatment of juveniles and the mentally ill by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

56 yea · 40 nayMotion to Table Agreed to4 not voting or present
Democrat4 yea · 40 nay
Republican50 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1217 ↗

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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(0.85): Tabling kills a measure to clarify treatment of juveniles and mentally ill prisoners, opposing reform.

    Tagged by: keyword:prison

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Prison litigation reform for juveniles and mentally ill is a criminal justice issue, not fiscal policy.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (56)

Nay (40)

Not voting or present (4)

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