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House Roll Call 943, 105th Congress · July 22, 1998

Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act — H.R.1689 BY WHITE (R-WA) -- SECURITIES LITIGATION UNIFORM STANDARDS ACT OF 1997 (HOUSE AGREED TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 1689, TO AMEND THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 AND THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 TO LIMIT THE CONDUCT OF SECURITIES CLASS ACTIONS UNDER STATE LAW.)

Question before the chamber: Suspend the rules and pass, as amended

340 yea · 83 nayPassed12 not voting or present
Democrat118 yea · 80 nay
Republican222 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1689 ↗

Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998

Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector — 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.

  • Financial RegulationA yea counts toward “Deregulate”

    model(0.90): Limiting state securities class actions deregulates litigation liability for financial firms.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Finance and Financial Sector

    Axis: Regulate ← → Deregulate

Who voted which way

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

Yea (340)

Nay (83)

Not voting or present (12)

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