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08-S3351 on Jul 28, 2008

Legislative Summary:A bill to enhance drug trafficking interdiction by creating a Federal felony for operating or embarking in a submersible or semi-submersible vessel without nationality and on an international voyage.
    Cogressional Findings:
  • Congress finds that operating or embarking in a submersible or semi-submersible vessel without nationality and on an international voyage is a serious international problem, facilitates transnational crime, including drug trafficking, and terrorism, and presents a specific threat to the safety of maritime navigation and the security of the United States.
  • Whoever knowingly operates in any submersible vessel that is without nationality and that is navigating waters beyond the outer limit of the territorial sea of a single country, with the intent to evade detection, shall be punished as prescribed
  • House version is H.R.6295; related Senate bill S.3198.


    Participating counts on VoteMatch question 19.
  • Topic: Drugs
  • Headline: Enhance interdiction by criminalizing unflagged submarines (Score: 1)
  • Headline 2: Enhance interdiction by criminalizing unflagged submarines (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 08-S3351

Joe Biden s1iDE Democrat Jr Senator
Henry Cuellar s2oTexas Democrat
Dianne Feinstein s2oCA Democrat Sr Senator
Ron Klein s2oFlorida Democrat
Loretta Sanchez s2oCalifornia Democrat
Bennie Thompson s2oMississippi Democrat



Republicans participating in 08-S3351

John Howard Coble s2oNorth Carolina Republican
Lindsey Graham s2oSC Republican Jr Senator
Chuck Grassley s2oIA Republican incumbent
Dan Lungren s1iCalifornia Republican
Ted Poe s2oTexas Republican
Mark Souder s2oIndiana Republican



Independents participating in 08-S3351



Total recorded by OnTheIssues:

Democrats: 6
Republicans: 6
Independents: 0

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