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House Roll Call 658, 101st Congress · August 2, 1990

TO AMEND HR 4000, CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1990, TO PLACE A CAP ON PUNITIVE DAMAGES FOR EMPLOYERS WITH FEWER THAN 100 EMPLOYEES OF $150,000.

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

289 yea · 134 nayAgreed to6 not voting or present
Democrat204 yea · 40 nay
Republican86 yea · 94 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4000 ↗

Civil Rights Act of 1990

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(0.90): Capping punitive damages limits legal remedies available to victims of discrimination.

    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 (291)

Nay (135)

Not voting or present (6)

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