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Senate Roll Call 629, 109th Congress · September 29, 2006

A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit taking minors across State lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

57 yea · 42 nayCloture Motion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat6 yea · 37 nay
Republican51 yea · 3 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 403 ↗

Child Custody Protection Act

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.

  • Abortion & ContraceptionA yea counts toward “Restrict access”

    model(0.95): Restricting transport of minors across state lines restricts abortion access.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortion

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”

    model(0.90): Creating a new federal crime for transporting minors for abortions increases criminal penalties.

    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 (57)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (1)

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