House Roll Call 930, 95th Congress · May 1, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 9400, THE BILL PROTECTING THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS, BY DELETING LANGUAGE THAT WOULD MAKE THE LEGISLATION APPLICABLE TO PERSONS IN JAILS, PRISONS OR CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

227 yea · 132 nay53 not voting or present

Democrat128 yea · 119 nay

Republican109 yea · 22 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other1 yea · 1 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 “Narrow protections”
model(0.95): Removing coverage for institutionalized persons in correctional facilities narrows 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 (238)

Nay (143)

Not voting or present (53)

Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr.Did not vote
Ike Franklin AndrewsDid not vote
William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
Alvin James BaldusDid not vote
Don Leroy BonkerDid not vote
David Reece BowenDid not vote
John Bayne BreckinridgeDid not vote
George E. Brown Jr.Did not vote
John Lowell BurtonDid not vote
John Joseph CavanaughDid not vote
Thad CochranDid not vote
William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
Norman D. DicksDid not vote
Charles Coles Diggs Jr.Did not vote
Robert Christian EckhardtDid not vote
Robert Alton GammageDid not vote
Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr.Did not vote
Margaret M. HecklerDid not vote
Jack English HightowerDid not vote
Elwood Haynes HillisDid not vote
James John HowardDid not vote
Henry John HydeDid not vote
James Paul JohnsonDid not vote
Walter Beaman Jones Sr.Did not vote
Robert Walter Kasten Jr.Did not vote
Robert Charles KruegerDid not vote
Robert Linligthgow Livingston Jr.Did not vote
James Robert MannDid not vote
Lloyd MeedsDid not vote
Joseph George MinishDid not vote
Robert Homer MollohanDid not vote
John Emerson MossDid not vote
John Michael MurphyDid not vote
Mary Rose OakarDid not vote
Shirley Neil PettisDid not vote
Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
Carl Duane PursellDid not vote
Albert Harold QuieDid not vote
John Jacob RhodesDid not vote
Teno RoncalioDid not vote
Harold Lowell RunnelsDid not vote
James David SantiniDid not vote
David Alan StockmanDid not vote
Robert StumpDid not vote
Charles ThoneDid not vote
Raymond Hoyt Thornton Jr.Did not vote
James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr.Did not vote
Lionel Van DeerlinDid not vote
Charles Albert VanikDid not vote
Henry A. WaxmanDid not vote
James Howard WeaverDid not vote
Charles Orville WhitleyDid not vote

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