House Roll Call 306, 98th Congress · August 4, 1983

TO AMEND H.R. 2230, A BILL AMENDING THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957 TO EXTEND THE LIFE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION. THE EDWARDS AMENDMENT EXTENDS THE COMMISSION FOR FIVE RATHER THAN 15 YEARS AS PROVIDED UNDER THE BILL. (MOTION PASSED)

400 yea · 24 nay9 not voting or present

Democrat253 yea · 1 nay

Republican144 yea · 23 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2230 ↗

United States Commission on Civil Rights Act of 1983

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(0.85): Shortens Civil Rights Commission extension from 15 years to 5 years.
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 (400)

Nay (24)

Not voting or present (9)

Howard L. BermanDid not vote
William Hill BonerDid not vote
Judd A. GreggDid not vote
Cecil Landau HeftelDid not vote
Bill McCollumDid not vote
Claudine SchneiderDid not vote
Fernand Joseph St. GermainDid not vote
Louis StokesDid not vote
John Vincent WeberDid not vote

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