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Senate Roll Call 593, 115th Congress · December 18, 2018

To require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to notify each victim of the offense for which the prisoner is imprisoned the date on which the prisoner will be released.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

32 yea · 67 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 46 nay
Republican32 yea · 18 nay
Independent0 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 756 ↗

First Step Act of 2018

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(0.85): Adding mandatory victim notification requirements aligns with punitive criminal justice policies.

    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 (32)

Nay (67)

Not voting or present (1)

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