Gang Deterrence Bill, H.R. 1279
109th Congress, 1st Session
May 11, 2005
On May 11, 2005, the House passed H.R. 1279, the Gang Deterrence and Community Protection Act by a vote of 279-144, with 71 Democrats voting for the bill and 20 Republicans against. The bill's proponents argue that it is necessary to address increasing gang violence, including by gangs of Central American immigrants. Opponents find adequate legal tools to address the problem and oppose increased mandatory minimum sentences, federalization of what is appropriately addressed as local crime, trying 16 and 17-year-olds in adult courts and cutting the COPS program which provided for additional police officers on the street.
The table below shows membership in each of seven caucuses and permits sorting to see how members of each caucus voted, as well as sorting by party. The vote by caucus is shown below. There is overlap in membership among caucuses.
The votes by caucus are as follows: Congressional Black Caucus 7-30-3, Congressional Hispanic Caucus 9-13, Progressive Caucus 4-46-1, Blue Dogs, 28-7, New Democrats 15-18-6, Republican Study Committee 65-10-2, Rural Caucus 101-27-2. Note that the Speaker did not vote, as is usually the case, and Ohio's second district does not appear as that seat is currently vacant.
Data Set Sorted By state, cd in Ascending Order
Representative Sort |
Vote Sort |
State Sort |
District |
Party Sort |
CBC Sort |
CHC Sort |
Progressive Caucus Sort |
Blue Dogs Sort |
New Democrats Sort |
Republican Study Comm. Sort |
Rural Caucus Sort |
Don Young |
Y |
AK |
A-L |
R |
RURAL |
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Jo Bonner |
Y |
AL |
1 |
R |
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Terry Everett |
Y |
AL |
2 |
R |
RURAL |
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Mike Rogers |
Y |
AL |
3 |
R |
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Robert B. Aderholt |
Y |
AL |
4 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. |
Y |
AL |
5 |
D |
BD |
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Spencer Bachus |
Y |
AL |
6 |
R |
RSC |
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Artur Davis |
Y |
AL |
7 |
D |
B |
ND |
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Marion Berry |
Y |
AR |
1 |
D |
BD |
RURAL |
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Vic Snyder |
N |
AR |
2 |
D |
RURAL |
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John Boozman |
Y |
AR |
3 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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Mike Ross |
Y |
AR |
4 |
D |
BD |
RURAL |
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Rick Renzi |
Y |
AZ |
1 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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Trent Franks |
Y |
AZ |
2 |
R |
RSC |
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John B. Shadegg |
N |
AZ |
3 |
R |
RSC |
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Ed Pastor |
N |
AZ |
4 |
D |
H |
P |
RURAL |
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J. D. Hayworth |
Y |
AZ |
5 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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Jeff Flake |
N |
AZ |
6 |
R |
RSC |
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Raúl M. Grijalva |
N |
AZ |
7 |
D |
H |
P |
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Jim Kolbe |
Y |
AZ |
8 |
R |
RURAL |
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Mike Thompson |
N |
CA |
1 |
D |
BD |
RURAL |
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Wally Herger |
Y |
CA |
2 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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Daniel E. Lungren |
Y |
CA |
3 |
R |
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John T. Doolittle |
Y |
CA |
4 |
R |
RSC |
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Doris Matsui |
N |
CA |
5 |
D |
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Lynn C. Woolsey |
N |
CA |
6 |
D |
P |
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George Miller |
N |
CA |
7 |
D |
P |
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Nancy Pelosi |
N |
CA |
8 |
D |
P |
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Barbara Lee |
N |
CA |
9 |
D |
B |
P |
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Ellen O. Tauscher |
N |
CA |
10 |
D |
BD |
ND |
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Richard W. Pombo |
Y |
CA |
11 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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Tom Lantos |
Y |
CA |
12 |
D |
P |
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Fortney Pete Stark |
N |
CA |
13 |
D |
P |
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Anna G. Eshoo |
N |
CA |
14 |
D |
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Michael M. Honda |
N |
CA |
15 |
D |
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Zoe Lofgren |
N |
CA |
16 |
D |
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Sam Farr |
N |
CA |
17 |
D |
P |
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Dennis A. Cardoza |
Y |
CA |
18 |
D |
BD |
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George Radanovich |
Y |
CA |
19 |
R |
RSC |
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Jim Costa |
Y |
CA |
20 |
D |
BD |
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Devin Nunes |
Y |
CA |
21 |
R |
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William M. Thomas |
Y |
CA |
22 |
R |
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Lois Capps |
N |
CA |
23 |
D |
ND |
RURAL |
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Elton Gallegly |
Y |
CA |
24 |
R |
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Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon |
Y |
CA |
25 |
R |
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David Dreier |
Y |
CA |
26 |
R |
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Brad Sherman |
N |
CA |
27 |
D |
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Howard L. Berman |
N |
CA |
28 |
D |
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Adam B. Schiff |
N |
CA |
29 |
D |
BD |
ND |
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Henry A. Waxman |
N |
CA |
30 |
D |
P |
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Xavier Becerra |
N |
CA |
31 |
D |
P |
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Hilda L. Solis |
N |
CA |
32 |
D |
H |
P |
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Diane E. Watson |
Y |
CA |
33 |
D |
B |
P |
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Lucille Roybal-Allard |
N |
CA |
34 |
D |
H |
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Maxine Waters |
N |
CA |
35 |
D |
B |
P |
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Jane Harman |
Y |
CA |
36 |
D |
BD |
ND |
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Juanita Millender-McDonald |
NV |
CA |
37 |
D |
B |
ND |
RURAL |
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Grace F. Napolitano |
N |
CA |
38 |
D |
H |
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Linda T. Sánchez |
N |
CA |
39 |
D |
H |
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Edward R. Royce |
Y |
CA |
40 |
R |
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Jerry Lewis |
Y |
CA |
41 |
R |
RSC |
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Gary G. Miller |
Y |
CA |
42 |
R |
RSC |
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Joe Baca |
Y |
CA |
43 |
D |
H |
BD |
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Ken Calvert |
Y |
CA |
44 |
R |
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Mary Bono |
Y |
CA |
45 |
R |
RURAL |
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Dana Rohrabacher |
Y |
CA |
46 |
R |
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Loretta Sanchez |
N |
CA |
47 |
D |
H |
BD |
ND |
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Christopher Cox |
Y |
CA |
48 |
R |
RSC |
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Darrell E. Issa |
Y |
CA |
49 |
R |
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Randy ``Duke'' Cunningham |
Y |
CA |
50 |
R |
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Bob Filner |
N |
CA |
51 |
D |
P |
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Duncan Hunter |
Y |
CA |
52 |
R |
RSC |
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Susan A. Davis |
N |
CA |
53 |
D |
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Diana DeGette |
N |
CO |
1 |
D |
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Mark Udall |
N |
CO |
2 |
D |
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John T. Salazar |
Y |
CO |
3 |
D |
H |
BD |
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Marilyn N. Musgrave |
NV |
CO |
4 |
R |
RSC |
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Joel Hefley |
Y |
CO |
5 |
R |
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Thomas G. Tancredo |
Y |
CO |
6 |
R |
RSC |
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Bob Beauprez |
Y |
CO |
7 |
R |
RSC |
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John B. Larson |
NV |
CT |
1 |
D |
ND |
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Rob Simmons |
Y |
CT |
2 |
R |
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Rosa L. DeLauro |
N |
CT |
3 |
D |
P |
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Christopher Shays |
Y |
CT |
4 |
R |
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Nancy L. Johnson |
Y |
CT |
5 |
R |
RURAL |
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Michael N. Castle |
Y |
DE |
A-L |
R |
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Jeff Miller |
Y |
FL |
1 |
R |
RSC |
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Allen Boyd |
Y |
FL |
2 |
D |
BD |
RURAL |
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Corrine Brown |
N |
FL |
3 |
D |
B |
P |
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Ander Crenshaw |
Y |
FL |
4 |
R |
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Ginny Brown-Waite |
Y |
FL |
5 |
R |
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Cliff Stearns |
Y |
FL |
6 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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John L. Mica |
Y |
FL |
7 |
R |
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Ric Keller |
Y |
FL |
8 |
R |
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Michael Bilirakis |
Y |
FL |
9 |
R |
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C. W. Bill Young |
Y |
FL |
10 |
R |
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Jim Davis |
Y |
FL |
11 |
D |
ND |
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Adam H. Putnam |
Y |
FL |
12 |
R |
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Katherine Harris |
Y |
FL |
13 |
R |
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Connie Mack |
Y |
FL |
14 |
R |
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Dave Weldon |
Y |
FL |
15 |
R |
RSC |
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Mark Foley |
Y |
FL |
16 |
R |
RURAL |
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Kendrick B. Meek |
Y |
FL |
17 |
D |
B |
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen |
Y |
FL |
18 |
R |
H |
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Robert Wexler |
N |
FL |
19 |
D |
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz |
NV |
FL |
20 |
D |
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Lincoln Diaz-Balart |
Y |
FL |
21 |
R |
H |
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E. Clay Shaw Jr. |
Y |
FL |
22 |
R |
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Alcee L. Hastings |
NV |
FL |
23 |
D |
B |
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Tom Feeney |
NV |
FL |
24 |
R |
RSC |
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Mario Diaz-Balart |
Y |
FL |
25 |
R |
H |
RSC |
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Jack Kingston |
Y |
GA |
1 |
R |
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Sanford D. Bishop Jr. |
Y |
GA |
2 |
D |
B |
BD |
RURAL |
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Jim Marshall |
Y |
GA |
3 |
D |
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Cynthia McKinney |
N |
GA |
4 |
D |
B |
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John Lewis |
N |
GA |
5 |
D |
B |
P |
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Tom Price |
Y |
GA |
6 |
R |
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John Linder |
Y |
GA |
7 |
R |
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Lynn A. Westmoreland |
Y |
GA |
8 |
R |
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Charlie Norwood |
Y |
GA |
9 |
R |
RSC |
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Nathan Deal |
Y |
GA |
10 |
R |
RURAL |
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Phil Gingrey |
Y |
GA |
11 |
R |
RSC |
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John Barrow |
Y |
GA |
12 |
D |
BD |
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David Scott |
Y |
GA |
13 |
D |
B |
BD |
ND |
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Neil Abercrombie |
N |
HI |
1 |
D |
P |
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Ed Case |
Y |
HI |
2 |
D |
BD |
ND |
RURAL |
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Jim Nussle |
Y |
IA |
1 |
R |
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James A. Leach |
Y |
IA |
2 |
R |
RURAL |
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Leonard L. Boswell |
Y |
IA |
3 |
D |
BD |
RURAL |
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Tom Latham |
Y |
IA |
4 |
R |
RURAL |
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Steve King |
Y |
IA |
5 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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C. L. ``Butch'' Otter |
Y |
ID |
1 |
R |
RURAL |
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Michael K. Simpson |
Y |
ID |
2 |
R |
RURAL |
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Bobby L. Rush |
N |
IL |
1 |
D |
B |
P |
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Jesse L. Jackson Jr. |