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Their Record

Senate Roll Call 95, 113th Congress · April 11, 2013

A bill to ensure that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm are listed in the national instant criminal background check system and require a background check for every firearm sale, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed

68 yea · 31 nayCloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat49 yea · 2 nay
Republican16 yea · 29 nay
Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 649 ↗

Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013

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.

  • GunsA yea counts toward “Gun restrictions”

    model(0.95): Advancing a bill requiring universal background checks restricts gun rights.

    Tagged by: keyword:firearm,background check

    Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights

  • Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Universal background checks concern firearm regulation, not criminal justice reform or punishment.

    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 (68)

Nay (31)

Not voting or present (1)

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