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Senate Roll Call 385, 115th Congress · March 21, 2018

A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to clarify that section 230 of such Act does not prohibit the enforcement against providers and users of interactive computer services of Federal and State criminal and civil law relating to sexual exploitation of children or sex trafficking, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

97 yea · 2 nayBill Passed1 not voting or present
Democrat45 yea · 1 nay
Republican49 yea · 1 nay
Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1865 ↗

Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017

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(0.95): Passage strengthens criminal enforcement against providers facilitating sex trafficking.

    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 (97)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (1)

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