Senate Roll Call 599, 115th Congress · December 21, 2018
To amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to establish a voluntary national criminal history background check system and criminal history review program for certain individuals who, related to their employment, have access to children, the elderly, or individuals with disabilities, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Proceed
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Child Protection Improvements Act of 2017
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.
- GunsDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Background checks for child care providers do not regulate firearms or gun rights.
Tagged by: keyword:background check
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Establishing a child care worker background check program is not a primary spending/fiscal axis vote.
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)
- Lamar Alexander
- John Barrasso
- Roy Blunt
- John Boozman
- Richard Burr
- Shelley Moore Capito
- Bill Cassidy
- Susan M. Collins
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Tom Cotton
- Mike Crapo
- Ted Cruz
- Steve Daines
- Michael B. Enzi
- Joni Ernst
- Deb Fischer
- Jeff Flake
- Cory Gardner
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- John Hoeven
- Cindy Hyde-Smith
- James M. Inhofe
- Ron Johnson
- Doug Jones
- John Kennedy
- James Lankford
- Mike Lee
- Mitch McConnell
- Jerry Moran
- Lisa Murkowski
- David Perdue
- Rob Portman
- James E. Risch
- Pat Roberts
- Mike Rounds
- Marco Rubio
- Ben Sasse
- Tim Scott
- Richard C. Shelby
- Dan Sullivan
- John Thune
- Thom Tillis
- Patrick J. Toomey
- Roger F. Wicker
- Todd Young
Nay (47)
- Tammy Baldwin
- Michael F. Bennet
- Richard Blumenthal
- Cory A. Booker
- Sherrod Brown
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Christopher A. Coons
- Catherine Cortez Masto
- Joe Donnelly
- Tammy Duckworth
- Richard J. Durbin
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Kamala D. Harris
- Margaret Wood Hassan
- Martin Heinrich
- Heidi Heitkamp
- Mazie K. Hirono
- Tim Kaine
- Angus S. King, Jr.
- Amy Klobuchar
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Joe Manchin, III
- Edward J. Markey
- Claire McCaskill
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Christopher Murphy
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson
- Gary C. Peters
- Jack Reed
- 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
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (6)
- Dianne FeinsteinDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Dean HellerDid not vote
- Johnny IsaksonDid not vote
- Jon KylDid not vote
- Rand PaulDid not vote
Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.