Key Vote 90th Congress > Senate > Vote 317

Date: February 06, 1968

Result: 54-29

Vote Subject Matter: Civil Liberties / Domestic Social Policy

Sponsor: HART, Philip Aloysius (D-MI)

Bill number: HR2516

Description: TO TABLE ERVIN AMENDMENT NO. 505 TO H.R. 2516, A BILL TO PROVIDE PENALTIES FOR RACIALLY MOTIVATED INTERFERENCE WITH CIVIL RIGHTS. THE ERVIN AMENDMENT WOULD RESTRICT THE BILL'S COVERAGE TO RIGHTS EXTENDED UNDER THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION AND PROGRAMS INVOLVING FEDERAL FUNDS AND WOULD MAKE IT UNLAWFUL TO INTERFERE WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF THESE RIGHTS, NO MATTER WHETHER INTERFERENCE WAS RACIALLY MOTIVATED OR NOT.

Original source documents: Digest of the Congressional Record vol. 114-17, p. S980;

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