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Senate Roll Call 440, 114th Congress · June 16, 2016

To authorize the Attorney General and Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to address the national epidemics of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use, and to provide for the establishment of an inter-agency task force to review, modify, and update best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

66 yea · 29 nayMotion Agreed to5 not voting or present
Democrat40 yea · 0 nay
Republican24 yea · 29 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 524 ↗

Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery 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 “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.85): Advancing opioid treatment and grant bill promotes reform over 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 (66)

Nay (29)

Not voting or present (5)

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