House Roll Call 1030, 95th Congress · May 25, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 9400, THE BILL PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS, BY REINSTATING LANGUAGE THAT WOULD EXTEND COVERAGE UNDER THIS ACT TO PERSONS IN PRISONS, JAILS AND OTHER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS. (AN AMENDMENT PREVIOUSLY PASSED BY THE HOUSE ON MAY 1, 1978 HAD DELETED COVERAGE TO PERSONS IN PRISONS, JAILS, AND CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS. SEE RC 267.) THE RAILSBACK COMPROMISE AMENDMENT ALSO PROVIDES THAT THE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL CAN NOT INITIATE A SUIT ON BEHALF OF PRISONERS UNLESS THE COURT HAS REFERRED A FORMAL COMPLAINT OR PETITION TO HIM.

178 yea · 109 nay141 not voting or present

Democrat140 yea · 51 nay

Republican43 yea · 57 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

A bill to authorize actions for redress in cases involving deprivations of rights of institutionalized persons secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.

Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — 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): Extending statutory coverage to prisoners broadens civil rights protections.
Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
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 (184)

Nay (109)

Not voting or present (141)

Daniel K. AkakaDid not vote
William Vollie Alexander Jr.Did not vote
John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Mark AndrewsDid not vote
Frank AnnunzioDid not vote
Douglas Earl ApplegateDid not vote
Bill ArcherDid not vote
William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
John Milan AshbrookDid not vote
Les AuCoinDid not vote
Robert Edward BadhamDid not vote
Louis Arthur BafalisDid not vote
Max BaucusDid not vote
Edward Peter BeardDid not vote
Robin Leo Beard Jr.Did not vote
Anthony Charles BeilensonDid not vote
Tom BevillDid not vote
Michael Thomas BlouinDid not vote
Edward Patrick BolandDid not vote
Richard Walker BollingDid not vote
David E. BoniorDid not vote
William S. BroomfieldDid not vote
Clarence J. Brown Jr.Did not vote
George E. Brown Jr.Did not vote
J. Herbert BurkeDid not vote
Yvonne Brathwaite BurkeDid not vote
William Dean BurlisonDid not vote
John Lowell BurtonDid not vote
Phillip BurtonDid not vote
John Joseph CavanaughDid not vote
Donald Holst ClausenDid not vote
Delwin Morgan ClawsonDid not vote
William Lacy Clay Sr.Did not vote
Thad CochranDid not vote
Cardiss CollinsDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
James Charles CormanDid not vote
William Ross CotterDid not vote
James Joseph DelaneyDid not vote
Ronald Vernie DellumsDid not vote
John Herman DentDid not vote
William Louis DickinsonDid not vote
Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
Robert Kenneth DornanDid not vote
Joseph Daniel EarlyDid not vote
Robert Christian EckhardtDid not vote
Marvin Henry EdwardsDid not vote
Joshua EilbergDid not vote
John G. FaryDid not vote
James Joseph FlorioDid not vote
Walter FlowersDid not vote
John James Flynt Jr.Did not vote
Harold Eugene FordDid not vote
Donald MacKay FraserDid not vote
Robert GarciaDid not vote
Richard Andrew GephardtDid not vote
Barry Morris Goldwater Jr.Did not vote
William F. GoodlingDid not vote
Willis David Gradison Jr.Did not vote
Thomas Michael HagedornDid not vote
Sam Blakeley Hall Jr.Did not vote
John Paul HammerschmidtDid not vote
Michael Joseph HarringtonDid not vote
Cecil Landau HeftelDid not vote
Jack English HightowerDid not vote
Elwood Haynes HillisDid not vote
Kenneth Lamar HollandDid not vote
James John HowardDid not vote
William John HughesDid not vote
James M. JeffordsDid not vote
Edgar Lanier JenkinsDid not vote
Barbara Charline JordanDid not vote
Robert Walter Kasten Jr.Did not vote
Abraham Kazen Jr.Did not vote
Jack French KempDid not vote
William Matthew KetchumDid not vote
William LehmanDid not vote
Manuel Luján Jr.Did not vote
Stanley Nelson LundineDid not vote
Paul Norton McCloskey Jr.Did not vote
Joseph Michael McDadeDid not vote
Robert Cameron McEwenDid not vote
John Joseph McFallDid not vote
Koln Gunn McKayDid not vote
Ralph Harold MetcalfeDid not vote
Robert Henry MichelDid not vote
Dale MilfordDid not vote
George MillerDid not vote
Donald Jerome MitchellDid not vote
Anthony John Moffett Jr.Did not vote
William Singer MoorheadDid not vote
Morgan Francis MurphyDid not vote
William Flynt NicholsDid not vote
Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr.Did not vote
James Jarrell PickleDid not vote
Albert Harold QuieDid not vote
James Henry QuillenDid not vote
John Jacob RhodesDid not vote
Theodore Marshall RisenhooverDid not vote
Herbert Ray RobertsDid not vote
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr.Did not vote
Teno RoncalioDid not vote
Charles Grandison Rose IIIDid not vote
Daniel David RostenkowskiDid not vote
John Harbin RousselotDid not vote
Edward Ross RoybalDid not vote
Eldon Dean RuddDid not vote
Harold Lowell RunnelsDid not vote
Martin Anthony RussoDid not vote
Leo Joseph RyanDid not vote
James David SantiniDid not vote
Keith George SebeliusDid not vote
George Edward ShipleyDid not vote
Neal Edward SmithDid not vote
Virginia Dodd SmithDid not vote
Fernand Joseph St. GermainDid not vote
Arlan Ingehart StangelandDid not vote
William Albert SteigerDid not vote
Robert StumpDid not vote
Steven Douglas SymmsDid not vote
Olin Earl TeagueDid not vote
Raymond Hoyt Thornton Jr.Did not vote
David Conner TreenDid not vote
Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr.Did not vote
Albert Conrad UllmanDid not vote
Harold Lee VolkmerDid not vote
Joseph David Waggonner Jr.Did not vote
William Creed WamplerDid not vote
Henry A. WaxmanDid not vote
James Howard WeaverDid not vote
Theodore S. WeissDid not vote
Charles William Whalen Jr.Did not vote
George William WhitehurstDid not vote
Jamie Lloyd WhittenDid not vote
Charles Herbert WilsonDid not vote
James Claude Wright Jr.Did not vote
Gus YatronDid not vote
Don YoungDid not vote
John Andrew YoungDid not vote
Leo C. ZeferettiDid not vote

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