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House Roll Call 260, 93rd Congress · July 20, 1973

TO AMEND H.R. 8538, A BILL TO EXTEND CERTAIN AUTHORIZATIONS FOR THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING, BY WITHOLDING GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION UNLESS THE RECIPIENT WAS FOUND TO BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL LAWS PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.

189 yea · 190 nay58 not voting or present
Democrat128 yea · 79 nay
Republican63 yea · 110 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8538

A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934, to extend certain authorizations for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and for certain construction grants for noncommercial educational television and radio broadcasting facilities, and for other purposes.

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.

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”

    model(0.95): Conditioning grants on compliance with anti-discrimination laws broadens civil rights protections.

    Tagged by: keyword:discrimination

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

Who voted which way

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

Yea (191)

Nay (190)

Not voting or present (58)

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