Ben Nelson on Civil Rights

DemocratNE

Civil Rights14 votes · 48.2/100 consistent

Broaden protectionsNarrow protections

25 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Civil Rights. 14 of them counted toward the score above: 9 toward “Broaden protections” and 5 toward “Narrow protections”.

The other 11 did not count: 11 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 0 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
2012-06-05	A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.S. 3220 · 112th Congress · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Broaden protections
2010-11-17	A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.S. 3772 · 111th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Nay	Narrow protections
2010-07-22	A resolution recognizing and honoring the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.S.Res. 591 · 111th Congress · On the Resolution	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-09-22	To support the participation of the Smithsonian Institution in activities under the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009.H.R. 2996 · 111th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-03-04	To provide funds for the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act from funds already provided for the Weed and Seed Program.H.R. 1105 · 111th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Narrow protections
2009-01-22	A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and to modify the operation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes.S. 181 · 111th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Broaden protections
2009-01-22	To preserve open competition and Federal Government neutrality towards the labor relations of Federal Government contractors on Federal and federally funded construction projects.S. 181 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-01-22	To limit the application of the Act to claims resulting from discriminatory compensation decisions that are adopted on or after the date of enactment of the Act.S. 181 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Broaden protections
2009-01-22	To preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities.S. 181 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-01-22	To clarify standing.S. 181 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-01-22	To limit the application of the bill to discriminatory compensation decisions.S. 181 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Broaden protections
2009-01-22	To provide a rule of construction.S. 181 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2009-01-22	In the nature of a substitute.S. 181 · 111th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2009-01-15	A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and to modify the operation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes.S. 181 · 111th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Broaden protections
2008-04-24	A bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment.H.R. 493 · 110th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Broaden protections
2008-04-23	A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to clarify that adiscriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant tothe discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes.H.R. 2831 · 110th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Broaden protections
2007-10-04	To provide $1,680,000 to investigate and prosecute unsolved civil rights crimes in a fiscally responsible manner by prioritizing spending.H.R. 3093 · 110th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Narrow protections
2005-10-05	To increase by $360,800,000 amounts appropriated by title IX for Other Procurement, Army, for the procurement of armored Tactical Wheeled Vehicles for units deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to increase by $5,000,000 amounts appropriated by title IX for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide, for industrial preparedness for the implementation of a ballistics engineering research center.H.R. 2863 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-07-25	A resolution recognizing and honoring the 15th anniversary of the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.S.Res. 207 · 109th Congress · On the Resolution	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-02-17	A bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment.S. 306 · 109th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Broaden protections
2005-02-09	To amend the definition of class action in title 28, United States Code, to exclude class actions relating to civil rights or the payment of wages.S. 5 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Narrow protections
2003-10-14	A bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment.S. 1053 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Broaden protections
2002-02-26	To amend the short title to read ?Martin Luther King, Jr. Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2001".S. 565 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-09-13	To express the sense of the Senate regarding discrimination against Arab Americans.H.R. 2500 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-07-25	To prevent discrimination, in the application of truck safety standards, against Mexico by imposing any requirements on a Mexican motor carrier that seeks to operate in the United States that do not exist with regard to United States and Canadian motor carriers.H.R. 2299 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Narrow protections

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Broaden protections / Narrow protections axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.