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Senate Roll Call 378, 114th Congress · April 4, 2016

A bill to amend chapter 90 of title 18, United States Code, to provide Federal jurisdiction for the theft of trade secrets, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

87 yea · 0 nayBill Passed13 not voting or present
Democrat39 yea · 0 nay
Republican46 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1890

Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016

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): Expanding federal jurisdiction and criminal statutes for trade secret theft is punitive.

    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 (87)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (13)

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