Senate Roll Call 187, 102nd Congress · September 11, 1991

To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to reflect the original intent of the authors of such Act by prohibiting preferrential treatment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. — (SENATE REJECTED THE HELMS AMENDMENT NO. 1106 (TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT BEGINNING ON PAGE 3, LINE 24), PROHIBITING EMPLOYERS FROM USING PREFERENTIAL HIRING PRACTICES ON THE BASIS OF RACE, WAS VOTED TO BE NOT GERMANE, AND THE AMENDMENT THUS FELL.)

Question before the chamber: Whether the Amendment is Germane

33 yea · 67 nayAmendment Not Germane

Democrat3 yea · 53 nay

Republican30 yea · 12 nay

Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2707 ↗

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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 (0.95) Germaneness rulings are procedural floor votes.
Tagged by: keyword:civil rights
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Germaneness rulings are procedural floor votes.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (33)

Nay (67)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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