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House Roll Call 97, 116th Congress · February 27, 2019

Bipartisan Background Checks Act

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

220 yea · 209 nayPassed3 not voting or present
Democrat25 yea · 208 nay
Republican194 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8 ↗

Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019

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 JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Text does not specify the contents of the recommittal instructions.

    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 (220)

Nay (209)

Not voting or present (3)

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