Senate Roll Call 320, 112th Congress · April 26, 2012
To amend title 18 of the United States Code and other provisions of law to strengthen provisions of the Violence Against Women Act and improve justice for crime victims.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 (0.80) VAWA contains both law enforcement tools and victim services, making its axis placement unclear.
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 (50)
- Lamar Alexander
- Kelly Ayotte
- John Barrasso
- Michael F. Bennet
- Roy Blunt
- John Boozman
- Scott P. Brown
- Richard Burr
- Saxby Chambliss
- Daniel Coats
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Michael B. Enzi
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Dean Heller
- John Hoeven
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Mike Johanns
- Ron Johnson
- Jon Kyl
- Mike Lee
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Jerry Moran
- Lisa Murkowski
- Rand Paul
- Rob Portman
- James E. Risch
- Pat Roberts
- Marco Rubio
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- Patrick J. Toomey
- David Vitter
- Roger F. Wicker
Nay (48)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Mark Begich
- Jeff Bingaman
- Richard Blumenthal
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher A. Coons
- Richard J. Durbin
- Dianne Feinstein
- Al Franken
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Kay R. Hagan
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joe Manchin, III
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Debbie Stabenow
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- Mark R. Warner
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
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