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Nita Lowey

D

New York U.S. House, District 17 (1988 - Present)

Policy Positions >> Crime

Nita Lowey on Crime

  • Rated 92% by the NAPO, indicating a tough-on-crime stance. (Dec 2014)
  • Voted YES on enforcing against anti-gay hate crimes. (Apr 2009)
  • Voted YES on expanding services for offenders' re-entry into society. (Nov 2007)
  • Increase funding for "COPS ON THE BEAT" program. (Jan 2007)
  • More funding and stricter sentencing for hate crimes. (Apr 2001)
  • Moratorium on death penalty; more DNA testing. (Mar 2001)
  • Require DNA testing for all federal executions. (Mar 2001)
  • Rated 40% by CURE, indicating mixed votes on rehabilitation. (Dec 2000)
  • Voted YES on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. (Jun 2000)
  • Voted YES on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime. (Jun 1999)
  • Voted YES on maintaining right of habeas corpus in Death Penalty Appeals. (Mar 1996)
  • Voted NO on making federal death penalty appeals harder. (Feb 1995)
  • Voted YES on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment. (Apr 1994)
  • Life imprisonment for repeat sexual predators. (Mar 1994)
  • More prison cells; more truth in sentencing. (Nov 1993)
  • Stricter sentencing for hate crimes. (Mar 1993)