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Senate Roll Call 523, 100th Congress · April 20, 1988

TO TABLE THE HELMS, NC AMENDMENT TO S 1009, WARTIME REPARATIONS, TO STIPULATE THAT NO FUNDS BE AUTHORIZED DURING ANY YEAR IN WHICH THERE WAS A FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICIT.

61 yea · 35 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 9 nay
Republican19 yea · 26 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1009 ↗

A bill to accept the findings and to implement the recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.

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): Tabling a restriction on reparations preserves compensation for Japanese-American internees.

    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 (61)

Nay (35)

Not voting or present (4)

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