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Gordon Harold Smith on Civil Rights

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Civil Rights11 votes · 27.8/100 consistent
Broaden protectionsNarrow protections

15 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Civil Rights. 11 of them counted toward the score above: 7 toward “Broaden protections” and 4 toward “Narrow protections”.

The other 4 did not count: 4 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.

DateWhat was voted onVotedCounted as
2008-04-24A 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 BillYeaBroaden protections
2008-04-23A 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 MotionYeaBroaden protections
2007-10-04To 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 TableNayBroaden protections
2005-10-05To 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 MotionNayDirection not readable
2005-07-25A 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 ResolutionYeaDirection not readable
2005-02-17A 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 BillYeaBroaden protections
2005-02-09To 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 AmendmentNayNarrow protections
2003-10-14A 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 BillYeaBroaden protections
2002-02-26To amend the short title to read ?Martin Luther King, Jr. Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2001".S. 565 · 107th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2001-09-13To express the sense of the Senate regarding discrimination against Arab Americans.H.R. 2500 · 107th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2001-07-25To 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 TableYeaNarrow protections
2000-07-20To provide increased funding for the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration for investigations of anticompetitive behavior, rapid response teams, the Hog Contract Library, examinations of the competitive structure of the poultry industry, civil rights activities, and information staff, with an offset.H.R. 4461 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to TableNayBroaden protections
2000-07-17To 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.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the MotionNayNarrow protections
2000-06-29To prohibit health discrimination on the basis of genetic information or genetic services.H.R. 4577 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaBroaden protections
1998-03-06To require that Federal surface transportation funds be used to encourage development and outreach to emerging business enterprises, including those owned by minorities and women, and to prohibit discrimination and preferential treatment based on race, color, national origin, or sex, with respect to use of those funds, in compliance with the equal protection provisions of the fifth and 14th amendments to the Constitiution. — (SENATE TABLED MCCONNELL AMENDMENT NO. 1708 TO AMENDMENT NO. 1676, TO REQUIRE THAT FEDERAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION FUNDS BE USED TO ENCOURAGE DEVELOPMENT AND OUTREACH TO EMERGING BUSINESS ENTERPRISES, INCLUDING THOSE OWNED BY MINORITIES AND WOMEN, AND TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION AND PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT BASED ON RACE, COLOR, NATIONAL ORIGIN, OR SEX, WITH RESPECT TO USE OF THOSE FUNDS, IN COMPLIANCE WITH EQUAL PROTECTION PROVISIONS OF THE FIFTH AND 14TH AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.)S. 1173 · 105th Congress · On the Motion to TableNayNarrow 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.