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Senate Roll Call 470, 112th Congress · December 28, 2012

To require a report on the impact of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 on the privacy of the people of the United States.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

43 yea · 52 nayAmendment Rejected5 not voting or present
Democrat35 yea · 12 nay
Republican6 yea · 39 nay
Independent2 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5949

FISA Amendments Act 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 JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.90): Requiring privacy impact reports on surveillance promotes civil liberties oversight and reform.

    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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