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House Roll Call 505, 100th Congress · March 2, 1988

TO AMEND IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE S 557, CIVIL RIGHTS RESTORATION ACT, TO EXPAND THE "RELIGIOUS TENETS" EXEMPTION TO INCLUDE INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE CLOSELY IDENTIFIED WITH, NOT JUST CONTROLLED BY, SUCH TENETS, AND TO REDUCE COVERAGE FOR CORPORATIONS PROVIDING FEDERALLY-FUNDED SERVICES.

146 yea · 266 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 227 nay
Republican136 yea · 41 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 557 ↗

Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987

Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”

    model(0.95): Expanding religious exemptions and reducing corporation coverage narrows civil rights protections.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (151)

Nay (270)

Not voting or present (12)

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