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Senate Roll Call 122, 96th Congress · June 7, 1979

TO AMEND S. 721, THE CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION AUTHORIZATION, BY AUTHORIZING THE COMMISSION TO REPORT TO THE CONGRESS CONCERNING DISCRIMINATION OF AMERICANS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPEAN ETHNIC GROUPS. (MOTION PASSED

91 yea · 1 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat54 yea · 1 nay
Republican36 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 721

A bill to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to authorize appropriations for the United States Commission on Civil Rights for fiscal year 1980.

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(0.85): Authorizing reports on discrimination against additional ethnic groups expands protections.

    Tagged by: keyword:civil rights,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 (91)

Nay (1)

Not voting or present (8)

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