Senate Roll Call 445, 114th Congress · June 20, 2016

To authorize the Attorney General to deny requests to transfer a firearm to known or suspected terrorists.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

47 yea · 53 nayCloture Motion Rejected

Democrat42 yea · 1 nay

Republican2 yea · 52 nay

Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2578 ↗

Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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): Cloture on denying firearm transfers to suspected terrorists advances gun restrictions.
Tagged by: keyword:firearm
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Denying gun transfers to suspected terrorists is not a spending issue.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (47)

Nay (53)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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