House Roll Call 217, 97th Congress · October 1, 1981

TO LIMIT DEBATE TO TWO HOURS ON H. RES. 208, THE RESOLUTION DISAPPROVING THE ACTION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COUNCIL IN REVISING CRIMINAL PENALTIES IN CERTAIN SEX-RELATED OFFENSES. (MOTION AGREED TO)

253 yea · 141 nay38 not voting or present

Democrat91 yea · 118 nay

Republican162 yea · 21 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Res. 208 ↗

A resolution disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the District of Columbia Sexual Assault Reform Act of 1981.

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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.

Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Motion to limit debate is a procedural floor vote.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (254)

Nay (141)

Not voting or present (38)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.