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Senate Roll Call 19, 112th Congress · February 15, 2011

A bill to extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 relating to access to business records, individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers, and roving wiretaps until December 8, 2011.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

86 yea · 12 nayBill Passed2 not voting or present
Democrat39 yea · 9 nay
Republican45 yea · 2 nay
Independent2 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 514

FISA Sunsets Extension Act of 2011

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(0.90): Extending expiring USA PATRIOT Act surveillance and wiretap provisions maintains punitive law enforcement powers.

    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.

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