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House Roll Call 735, 102nd Congress · July 24, 1992

VOTING RIGHTS LANGUAGE ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1992 — (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 4312, TO AMEND THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 WITH RESPECT TO BILINGUAL ELECTION REQUIREMENTS.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

237 yea · 125 nayPassed72 not voting or present
Democrat189 yea · 27 nay
Republican46 yea · 97 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4312

Voting Rights Language Assistance Act of 1992

Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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.

  • Voting & ElectionsA yea counts toward “Expand access”

    model(0.95): Passing the bill expands access to voting by strengthening bilingual election requirements.

    Tagged by: keyword:voting rights

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (237)

Nay (125)

Not voting or present (72)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.