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House Roll Call 761, 105th Congress · May 6, 1998

(HOUSE REJECTED THE RIGGS AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION AND PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TO ANY PERSON OR GROUP BASED IN WHOLE OR IN PART ON RACE, SEX, COLOR, ETHNICITY, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

171 yea · 249 nayFailed13 not voting or present
Democrat4 yea · 192 nay
Republican167 yea · 56 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6 ↗

Higher Education Amendments of 1998

Policy area: Education — 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): Prohibiting affirmative action and preferential treatment narrows civil rights protections.

    Tagged by: keyword:discrimination

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

  • EducationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Restricting college affirmative action does not clearly expand or reduce the federal role in education.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Education

    Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

Who voted which way

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

Yea (171)

Nay (249)

Not voting or present (13)

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