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House Roll Call 506, 110th Congress · June 20, 2007

Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

422 yea · 2 nayPassed8 not voting or present
Democrat229 yea · 0 nay
Republican193 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 923 ↗

Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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 “Broaden protections”

    model(0.85): Passage of the Emmett Till Act broadens federal investigation and enforcement of civil rights violations.

    Tagged by: keyword:civil rights

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

  • Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.60) Investigating unsolved civil rights crimes does not clearly align with punitive versus reform-oriented criminal justice.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

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

Yea (422)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (8)

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