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House Roll Call 124, 102nd Congress · June 4, 1991

(HOUSE REJECTED THE MICHEL AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE THAT SOUGHT TO INCLUDE THE PROVISIONS OF THE ADMINISTRATION'S LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL, INCLUDING LANGUAGE PROHIBITING "RACE NORMING" OF EMPLOYMENT TESTS; CODIFYING THE DEFINITION OF "BUSINESS NECESSITY" AS FOUND IN GRIGGS AND BEAZER; NOT PERMITTING GROUPING IN DISPARATE IMPACT CASES; ENSURING THE RIGHT OF INDIVIDUALS TO CHALLENGE CONSENT DECREES; PROVIDING DAMAGES OF UP TO $150,000 FOR ON-THE-JOB HARASSMENT; REMOVING ATTORNEY FEE PROVISIONS IN THE BILL; AND APPLYING PROVISIONS PROSPECTIVELY, NOT RETROACTIVELY.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

162 yea · 266 nayFailed3 not voting or present
Democrat13 yea · 241 nay
Republican148 yea · 23 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1 ↗

Civil Rights and Women's Equity in Employment Act of 1991

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): Adopting a substitute offering narrower civil rights protections than the base bill moves toward the low pole.

    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 (162)

Nay (266)

Not voting or present (3)

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