House Roll Call 307, 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 PROVIDES THAT THE PRESIDENT CAN REMOVE A MEMBER ONLY FOR NEGLECT OF DUTY OR MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE. (MOTION PASSED)

286 yea · 128 nay18 not voting or present

Democrat239 yea · 9 nay

Republican44 yea · 120 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 “Broaden protections”
model(0.85): Protects Civil Rights Commission members from arbitrary presidential removal.
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 (286)

Nay (129)

Not voting or present (18)

William Hill BonerDid not vote
Robert Lawrence CoughlinDid not vote
Judd A. GreggDid not vote
Katie Beatrice HallDid not vote
Charles Floyd HatcherDid not vote
Cecil Landau HeftelDid not vote
Steny H. HoyerPresent
Andrew Jacobs Jr.Did not vote
Manuel Luján Jr.Did not vote
Kenneth Hood MacKay Jr.Did not vote
Bill McCollumDid not vote
Charles Pashayan Jr.Did not vote
Richard Taylor SchulzeDid not vote
Lawrence Jack SmithDid not vote
Fernand Joseph St. GermainDid not vote
Louis StokesDid not vote
John Vincent WeberDid not vote
Jamie Lloyd WhittenDid not vote

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