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06-S4113 on Dec 8, 2006

OFFICIAL CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY: A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to clarify that territories and Indian tribes are eligible to receive grants for confronting the use of methamphetamine.

EXCERPTS OF BILL: Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include territories and Indian tribes as eligible grant recipients (or reaffirm such eligibility) under the programs to:

  1. address the manufacture, sale, and use of methamphetamine;
  2. aid children in homes in which methamphetamine or other drugs are unlawfully manufactured, distributed, dispensed, or used; and
  3. address methamphetamine use by pregnant and parenting women offenders.

LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Passed/agreed to in Senate, by Unanimous Consent.


    Participating counts on VoteMatch question 19.
  • Topic: Drugs
  • Headline: Federal grants to Indian tribes to fight methamphetamine (Score: 2)
  • Headline 2: Sponsored bill for grants to Indian tribes to fight meth (Score: 2)
  • Key for participation codes:
  • Sponsorships: p=sponsored; o=co-sponsored; s=signed
  • Memberships: c=chair; m=member; e=endorsed; f=profiled; s=scored
  • Resolutions: i=introduced; w=wrote; a=adopted
  • Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred



Democrats participating in 06-S4113

Max Baucus s1oMT Democrat Sr Senator
Jeff Bingaman s1oNM Democrat Jr Senator
Barbara Boxer s1oCA Democratic incumbent
Byron Dorgan s1oND Democratic incumbent
Russell Feingold s1oPOTUS Democrat
Dianne Feinstein s1oCA Democrat Sr Senator
Tim Johnson s1oSD Democrat Sr Senator
Harry Reid s1oNV Democratic incumbent
Ken Salazar s1oCO Democratic Jr Senator
Ron Wyden s1oOR Democratic incumbent



Republicans participating in 06-S4113

Chuck Grassley s1oIA Republican incumbent
John McCain s2pAZ Republican incumbent
Gordon Harold Smith s1oOR Republican Jr Senator



Independents participating in 06-S4113



Total recorded by OnTheIssues:

Democrats: 10
Republicans: 3
Independents: 0

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