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Senate Roll Call 398, 99th Congress · February 19, 1986

TO ADOPT S 1429, WHICH WOULD AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE U.S. CODE (CONTINUED) TO AUTHORIZE PROSECUTION OF TERRORISTS WHO ATTACK U.S. NATIONALS ABROAD.

92 yea · 0 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 0 nay
Republican50 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1429

Terrorist Prosecution Act of 1985

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(0.95): Authorizing federal prosecution of overseas terrorist attacks expands punitive criminal enforcement.

    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 (94)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (6)

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