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House Roll Call 660, 101st Congress · August 3, 1990

TO AMEND HR 4000, CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1990, TO PROVIDE A DIFFERENT DEFINITION OF THE PROOF OF "BUSINESS NECESSITY" REQUIRED FROM AN EMPLOYER TO JUSTIFY EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES HAVING A DISPARATE IMPACT ON WOMEN AND MINORITIES.

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

188 yea · 238 nayFailed3 not voting or present
Democrat24 yea · 222 nay
Republican164 yea · 17 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 RightsDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) The text does not specify whether the different definition broadens or narrows the business necessity standard.

    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 (189)

Nay (240)

Not voting or present (3)

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