Lamar Smith on Crime

• Rated 38% by the NAPO, indicating a police-the-police stance. (Dec 2014)
• Voted NO on enforcing against anti-gay hate crimes. (Apr 2009)
• Voted YES on expanding services for offenders' re-entry into society. (Nov 2007)
• Reduce recidivism by giving offenders a Second Chance. (Mar 2007)
• Rated 30% by CURE, indicating anti-rehabilitation crime votes. (Dec 2000)
• Voted NO on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. (Jun 2000)
• Voted YES on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime. (Jun 1999)
• Voted NO on maintaining right of habeas corpus in Death Penalty Appeals. (Mar 1996)
• Voted YES on making federal death penalty appeals harder. (Feb 1995)
• More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. (Sep 1994)
• Voted NO on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment. (Apr 1994)