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Senate Roll Call 160, 114th Congress · April 22, 2015

To direct the Attorney General to increase the amount provided under certain formula grants to States that have in place laws that terminate the parental rights of men who father children through rape.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

99 yea · 0 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 0 nay
Republican53 yea · 0 nay
Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 178

Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015

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(0.80): Mandating parental rights termination for offenders increases legal penalties against perpetrators.

    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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