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House Roll Call 251, 95th Congress · May 23, 1977

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 5645, A BILL INCREASING THE APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNITED STATES COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS.

365 yea · 34 nay31 not voting or present
Democrat249 yea · 11 nay
Republican116 yea · 23 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5645

Civil Rights Commission Authorization Act of 1977

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): Increases funding for federal civil rights enforcement and monitoring.

    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 (368)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (31)

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