House Roll Call 1243, 95th Congress · July 28, 1978

TO PASS H.R. 9400, THE BILL PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS LIVING IN STATE-RUN INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-IMPAIRED, IN JAILS, IN JUVENILE INSTITUTIONS, AND IN NURSING HOMES.

254 yea · 69 nay91 not voting or present

Democrat186 yea · 36 nay

Republican77 yea · 40 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 9400 ↗

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(0.90): Passage of bill broadens civil rights protections for institutionalized persons.
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 (265)

Nay (76)

Not voting or present (91)

James AbdnorDid not vote
Leslie AspinDid not vote
Les AuCoinDid not vote
Robert Edward BadhamDid not vote
Louis Arthur BafalisDid not vote
Druie Douglas Barnard Jr.Did not vote
Max BaucusDid not vote
Robin Leo Beard Jr.Did not vote
Berkley Warren BedellDid not vote
Jonathan Brewster BinghamDid not vote
Richard Walker BollingDid not vote
Don Leroy BonkerDid not vote
David Reece BowenDid not vote
Clarence J. Brown Jr.Did not vote
Bruce Faulkner CaputoDid not vote
Charles Joseph CarneyDid not vote
Elford Albin CederbergDid not vote
Donald Holst ClausenDid not vote
William Lacy Clay Sr.Did not vote
Thad CochranDid not vote
William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
Earl Thomas ColemanDid not vote
Cardiss CollinsDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
David Lance CornwellDid not vote
Philip M. CraneDid not vote
John Herman DentDid not vote
William Louis DickinsonDid not vote
Norman D. DicksDid not vote
Charles Coles Diggs Jr.Did not vote
Robert Blackford DuncanDid not vote
Walter FlowersDid not vote
William David FordDid not vote
Edwin Bell ForsytheDid not vote
Wyche Fowler Jr.Did not vote
Donald MacKay FraserDid not vote
Louis Frey Jr.Did not vote
Robert GarciaDid not vote
Joseph Matthew GaydosDid not vote
Michael Joseph HarringtonDid not vote
Willie Gathrel HefnerDid not vote
Cecil Landau HeftelDid not vote
Frank Jefferson HortonDid not vote
Thomas Jerald HuckabyDid not vote
Andrew Poysell IrelandDid not vote
Andrew Jacobs Jr.Did not vote
Edgar Lanier JenkinsDid not vote
Robert Walter Kasten Jr.Did not vote
Abraham Kazen Jr.Did not vote
Jack French KempDid not vote
Robert Charles KruegerDid not vote
Joseph Anthony LeFanteDid not vote
Norman Frederick LentDid not vote
Robert Linligthgow Livingston Jr.Did not vote
Gene Andrew MaguireDid not vote
Ronald Charles MarleneeDid not vote
Robert Cameron McEwenDid not vote
Lloyd MeedsDid not vote
Ralph Harold MetcalfeDid not vote
Dale MilfordDid not vote
George MillerDid not vote
Carlos John MoorheadDid not vote
Austin John MurphyDid not vote
John Michael MurphyDid not vote
Morgan Francis MurphyDid not vote
Michael Joseph MyersDid not vote
Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr.Did not vote
Richard M. NolanDid not vote
David Ross ObeyDid not vote
James Jarrell PickleDid not vote
Albert Harold QuieDid not vote
Frederick William RichmondDid not vote
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr.Did not vote
Teno RoncalioDid not vote
Benjamin Stanley RosenthalDid not vote
Harold Lowell RunnelsDid not vote
Philip Edward RuppeDid not vote
George Edward ShipleyDid not vote
Fernand Joseph St. GermainDid not vote
Fortney Pete StarkDid not vote
Thomas Jefferson SteedDid not vote
Charles ThoneDid not vote
Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr.Did not vote
William Francis WalshDid not vote
William Creed WamplerDid not vote
Henry A. WaxmanDid not vote
Charles William Whalen Jr.Did not vote
Jamie Lloyd WhittenDid not vote
Timothy E. WirthDid not vote
John Waldemar WydlerDid not vote

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