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House Roll Call 622, 100th Congress · May 18, 1988

TO AMEND HR 3193, HATE CRIME STATISTICS, TO SUBSTITUTE "HOMOSEXUALITY OR HETEROSEXUALITY" FOR "SEXUAL ORIENTATION" AS REPORTING CATEGORIES, AND TO STATE THAT NOTHING IN THE BILL CAN FORM THE BASIS OF A DISCRIMINATION SUIT.

384 yea · 30 nay13 not voting or present
Democrat236 yea · 2 nay
Republican147 yea · 30 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3193 ↗

Hate Crime Statistics Act

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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(0.85): Explicitly preventing the measure from forming the basis of discrimination suits narrows protections.

    Tagged by: keyword:discrimination,hate crime

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

  • LGBTQ PolicyA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”

    model(0.85): Restricting legal protection mechanisms narrows LGBTQ civil rights protections.

    Tagged by: keyword:sexual orientation

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

  • Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Restricting legal suits on statistical data does not clearly align with punitive or reform criminal justice poles.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

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

Yea (386)

Nay (32)

Not voting or present (13)

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