House Roll Call 226, 97th Congress · October 5, 1981

TO AMEND H.R. 3112, BY ELIMINATING PROVISIONS IN THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT REQUIRING CERTAIN AREAS OF THE COUNTRY TO PROVIDE BILINGUAL ELECTION MATERIALS. (MOTION FAILED)

128 yea · 284 nay14 not voting or present

Democrat14 yea · 214 nay

Republican115 yea · 73 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3112 ↗

An act to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to extend the effect of certain provisions, and for other purposes.

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.

Voting & ElectionsA yea counts toward “Restrict access”
model(0.90): Eliminates bilingual election material requirements, restricting voter access.
Tagged by: keyword:voting rights
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

Who voted which way

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

Yea (131)

Nay (288)

Not voting or present (14)

John Milan AshbrookDid not vote
Robin Leo Beard Jr.Did not vote
Clarence J. Brown Jr.Did not vote
John Lowell BurtonDid not vote
John D. DingellDid not vote
Bobbi FiedlerDid not vote
William F. GoodlingDid not vote
William LehmanDid not vote
Charles Pashayan Jr.Did not vote
Ron PaulDid not vote
Peter A. PeyserDid not vote
Mark Deli SiljanderDid not vote
Guy Adrian Vander JagtDid not vote
Henry A. WaxmanDid not vote

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