House Roll Call 865, 100th Congress · October 4, 1988

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS HR 3914, RACIALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE COMMISSION, TO CREATE A COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE RACIALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE AND WAYS TO STOP IT. MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.

408 yea · 6 nay15 not voting or present

Democrat238 yea · 0 nay

Republican169 yea · 6 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3914 ↗

Commission on Racially Motivated Violence Act of 1988

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.

Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”
model(0.80): Creates a commission to investigate and address racially motivated violence.
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 (410)

Nay (6)

Not voting or present (15)

Helen Delich BentleyDid not vote
Eldon Beau BoulterDid not vote
Brian Joseph DonnellyDid not vote
William David FordDid not vote
Duncan L. HunterDid not vote
Marcy KapturDid not vote
Jack French KempDid not vote
Jerry LewisDid not vote
Connie Mack IIIDid not vote
Kenneth Hood MacKay Jr.Did not vote
James Jarrell PickleDid not vote
David McCann SweeneyDid not vote
Morris King UdallDid not vote
Itimous Thaddeus, Jr., ValentineDid not vote
Robert Russell WhittakerDid not vote

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