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Senate Roll Call 471, 112th Congress · December 28, 2012

A bill to extend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 for five years.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

73 yea · 23 nayBill Passed4 not voting or present
Democrat29 yea · 19 nay
Republican42 yea · 3 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 “Punitive”

    model(0.90): Reauthorizing broad surveillance powers without added privacy protections opposes 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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