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Senate Roll Call 699, 100th Congress · August 1, 1988

TO AMEND HR 1158, FAIR HOUSING, TO CLARIFY THAT A TRANSVESTITE CAN NOT BE REGARDED AS A HANDICAPPED PERSON IN ORDER TO GAIN PROTECTION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION UNDER FEDERAL LAW.

89 yea · 2 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat47 yea · 1 nay
Republican43 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1158

Fair Housing Amendments 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 “Narrow protections”

    model(0.95): Excluding a group from anti-discrimination provisions narrows 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 (90)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (8)

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