Senate Roll Call 98, 113th Congress · April 17, 2013

To address gun violence, improve the availability of records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, address mental illness in the criminal justice system, and end straw purchases and trafficking of illegal firearms, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

52 yea · 48 nayAmendment Rejected

Democrat9 yea · 43 nay

Republican43 yea · 2 nay

Independent0 yea · 3 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(0.90): Restricts firearms trafficking and enhances records for background checks.
Tagged by: keyword:background check,gun violence
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Combines punitive trafficking penalties with mental health policy, moving criminal justice both ways.
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 (52)

Nay (48)

Not voting or present (0)

None

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.