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Sponsored by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) · 2 active : 2 Republicans
Latest action: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 279.
Strong Sentences for Safer D.C. Streets Act
This bill establishes and increases mandatory minimum sentences of imprisonment for specified crimes in the District of Columbia.
First, the bill mandates a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for first-degree murder (currently, the mandatory minimum sentence is 30 years imprisonment and the maximum sentence is life imprisonment without parole). The bill also repeals provisions that prohibit the sentencing of individuals under the age of 18 to life imprisonment without parole for first-degree murder.
The bill also establishes a mandatory minimum sentence of
10 years imprisonment for second-degree murder,
10 years imprisonment for kidnapping,
25 years imprisonment for first- degree sexual abuse, and
25 years imprisonment for rape.
Finally, the bill increases the mandatory minimum sentence for
first-degree burglary from 5 years to 10 years imprisonment,
unarmed carjacking from 7 years to 10 years imprisonment,
armed carjacking from 15 years to 20 years imprisonment, and
rape with a prior conviction of a crime of violence from 7 years to 30 years imprisonment.
Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted.
: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
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These members have less than half of the model’s inputs, so their scores are not banded or ranked.
Ideology is each member’s score. The cluster low on the chart includes the bill’s 3 sponsor and cosponsors in the House: they have already committed, so they score as entrenched. 2 representatives without a DW-NOMINATE score or with insufficient data are not plotted.
Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 25.0 (needs 5.0).
