House Roll Call 1201, 112th Congress · May 16, 2012

To reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

187 yea · 236 nayFailed8 not voting or present

Democrat185 yea · 0 nay

Republican2 yea · 235 nay

Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4970 ↗

Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2012

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) Motion to recommit lacks instruction details in text.
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 (187)

Nay (236)

Not voting or present (8)

Bill CassidyDid not vote
Bob FilnerDid not vote
Rubén HinojosaDid not vote
Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.Did not vote
Raúl R. LabradorDid not vote
Jeffrey M. LandryDid not vote
Linda T. SánchezDid not vote
Louise McIntosh SlaughterDid not vote

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