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House Roll Call 857, 100th Congress · October 3, 1988

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND AGREE WITH THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO THE HOUSE AMENDMENT TO S 496, COMPUTER MATCHING AND PRIVACY PROTECTION, TO SET UP PROTECTION FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION USED BY THE GOVERNMENT. MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.

393 yea · 8 nay28 not voting or present
Democrat230 yea · 0 nay
Republican162 yea · 8 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 496

Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988

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(0.85): Establishes government privacy protections for personal information.

    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 (395)

Nay (8)

Not voting or present (28)

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