Senate Roll Call 594, 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
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 (33)
- John Barrasso
- Roy Blunt
- John Boozman
- Richard Burr
- Shelley Moore Capito
- John Cornyn
- Tom Cotton
- Mike Crapo
- Ted Cruz
- Steve Daines
- Michael B. Enzi
- Deb Fischer
- Cory Gardner
- Dean Heller
- John Hoeven
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- John Kennedy
- Jon Kyl
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- David Perdue
- Rob Portman
- James E. Risch
- Mike Rounds
- Marco Rubio
- Ben Sasse
- Tim Scott
- Richard C. Shelby
- Dan Sullivan
- John Thune
- Thom Tillis
- Patrick J. Toomey
Nay (66)
- Lamar Alexander
- Tammy Baldwin
- Michael F. Bennet
- Richard Blumenthal
- Cory A. Booker
- Sherrod Brown
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Bill Cassidy
- Susan M. Collins
- Christopher A. Coons
- Bob Corker
- Catherine Cortez Masto
- Joe Donnelly
- Tammy Duckworth
- Richard J. Durbin
- Joni Ernst
- Dianne Feinstein
- Jeff Flake
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Chuck Grassley
- Kamala D. Harris
- Margaret Wood Hassan
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Martin Heinrich
- Heidi Heitkamp
- Mazie K. Hirono
- Cindy Hyde-Smith
- Ron Johnson
- Doug Jones
- Tim Kaine
- Angus S. King, Jr.
- Amy Klobuchar
- James Lankford
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Mike Lee
- Joe Manchin, III
- Edward J. Markey
- Claire McCaskill
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Jerry Moran
- Christopher Murphy
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson
- Rand Paul
- Gary C. Peters
- Jack Reed
- Pat Roberts
- Bernard Sanders
- Brian Schatz
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Tina Smith
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Tom Udall
- Chris Van Hollen
- Mark R. Warner
- Elizabeth Warren
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
- Ron Wyden
- Todd Young
Not voting or present (1)
- Lindsey GrahamDid not vote
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