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S. 1745 (102nd): Civil Rights Act of 1991

Oct 30, 1991 at 5:35 p.m. ET. On Passage of the Bill in the Senate.

This was a vote to pass S. 1745 (102nd) in the Senate.

The Civil Rights Act of 1991 is a United States labor law, passed in response to United States Supreme Court decisions that limited the rights of employees who had sued their employers for discrimination. The Act represented the first effort since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to modify some of the basic procedural and substantive rights provided by federal law in employment discrimination cases. It provided the right to trial by jury on discrimination claims and introduced the possibility of emotional distress damages and limited the amount that a jury could award.

President Bush had used his veto against the more comprehensive Civil Rights Act of 1990. He feared racial quotas would be imposed but later approved the 1991 version of the bill.

This summary is from Wikipedia.

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Totals

All Votes D R
Yea 93%
 
 
93
55
 
38
 
Nay 5%
 
 
5
0
 
5
 
Not Voting 2%
 
 
2
2
 
0
 

Bill Passed. Simple Majority Required. Source: senate.gov.

The Yea votes represented 97% of the country’s population by apportioning each state’s population to its voting senators.

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