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Key Votes
S Amdt 1151 - Improving Fingerprint Systems Amendment - Key Vote
National Key Votes
Chris Dodd voted Nay (Tabling Vote) on this Amendment.
Read statements Chris Dodd made in this general time period.
Stages
- Nov. 17, 1993 Senate Amendment Adopted
- Nov. 9, 1993 Senate Amendment Not Tabled
- Nov. 9, 1993 Introduced
Family
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- S Amdt 1132 - Prohibiting the Death Penalty for Minors
- S Amdt 1151 - Improving Fingerprint Systems Amendment
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- S Amdt 1204 - Replacing the Death Penalty with Life Imprisonment
Issues
Stage Details
Amendment - Amendment Adopted (Senate) - Nov. 17, 1993
Title: Improving Fingerprint Systems Amendment
Vote to table an amendment that requires the FBI to submit to Congress a report on how to improve automatic fingerprint systems in order to identify criminals more quickly and effectively.
Ensures that FBI shall report by June 1994 to the Congress regarding how it can accelerate and improve automatic fingerprint systems at the State and Federal level in order to use fingerprints found at the scene of a crime to identify more criminal suspects more quickly and effectively
Amendment - Amendment Not Tabled (Senate) (49-51) - Nov. 9, 1993(Key vote)
Title: Improving Fingerprint Systems Amendment
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote to table an amendment that requires the FBI to submit to Congress a report on how to improve automatic fingerprint systems in order to identify criminals more quickly and effectively.
Ensures that FBI shall report by June 1994 to the Congress regarding how it can accelerate and improve automatic fingerprint systems at the State and Federal level in order to use fingerprints found at the scene of a crime to identify more criminal suspects more quickly and effectively
NOTE: A SENATOR MAY MOVE TO TABLE ANY PENDING LEGISLATION, THUS HALTING FURTHER CONSIDERATION. A "YEA" VOTE IS IN SUPPORT OF HALTING FURTHER CONSIDERATION, AND A "NAY" VOTE IS IN SUPPORT OF FURTHER CONSIDERATION. TABLING MOTIONS ARE OFTEN USED TO KILL LEGISLATION.
Amendment - Introduced (Senate) - Nov. 9, 1993
Title: Improving Fingerprint Systems Amendment
Sponsors
- Carl Levin (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
