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House Roll Call 98, 116th Congress · February 27, 2019

Bipartisan Background Checks Act

Question before the chamber: On Passage

240 yea · 190 nayPassed2 not voting or present
Democrat231 yea · 2 nay
Republican9 yea · 186 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 (0.70) Gun background checks do not clearly map to punitive versus reform criminal justice poles.

    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 (240)

Nay (190)

Not voting or present (2)

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.