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House Roll Call 744, 100th Congress · August 4, 1988

TO ADOPT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON HR 442, WARTIME RELOCATION OF CIVILIANS, TO APOLOGIZE AND PAY $20,000 IN REPARATIONS TO EACH SURVIVING JAPANESE-AMERICAN INTERNED DURING WORLD WAR II.

257 yea · 156 nay16 not voting or present
Democrat183 yea · 50 nay
Republican73 yea · 106 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 442

Civil Liberties 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 “Broaden protections”

    model(0.90): Providing reparations and an official apology for wartime internment broadens 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 (258)

Nay (157)

Not voting or present (16)

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