House Roll Call 740, 98th Congress · June 26, 1984

TO AMEND H.R. 5490, A BILL CLARIFYING THE APPLICATION OF TITLE IX OF THE EDUCATION AMENDMENTS OF 1972, SECTION 504 OF THE REHABILITION ACT OF 1973, THE AGE DISCRIMINATION ACT OF 1975, AND TITLE V1 OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964. THE SILJANDER AMENDMENT DEFINES THE TERM "PERSON" TO INCLUDE UNBORN CHILDREN FROM THE MOMENT OF CONCEPTION. (MOTION FAILED)

186 yea · 219 nay28 not voting or present

Democrat71 yea · 176 nay

Republican115 yea · 41 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5490 ↗

Civil Rights Act of 1984

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(0.80): Defining 'person' to include unborn children expands civil rights coverage to unborn individuals.
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 (186)

Nay (219)

Not voting or present (28)

Donald Joseph AlbostaDid not vote
Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr.Did not vote
Druie Douglas Barnard Jr.Did not vote
David E. BoniorDid not vote
Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr.Did not vote
Mervyn Malcolm DymallyDid not vote
John Neal ErlenbornDid not vote
William Eldridge FrenzelDid not vote
Richard Andrew GephardtDid not vote
John Paul HammerschmidtDid not vote
George Vernon HansenDid not vote
Andrew Poysell IrelandDid not vote
Raymond Peter KogovsekDid not vote
Norman Frederick LentDid not vote
Daniel E. LungrenDid not vote
Joseph Michael McDadeDid not vote
Raymond Joseph McGrathDid not vote
Stewart Brett McKinneyDid not vote
Robert Jan MrazekDid not vote
Jerry Mumford PattersonDid not vote
Charles Melvin PriceDid not vote
Charles Grandison Rose IIIDid not vote
Richard Taylor SchulzeDid not vote
F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.Did not vote
James Michael ShannonDid not vote
Edolphus TownsDid not vote
Guy Adrian Vander JagtDid not vote
George Cornelius WortleyDid not vote

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