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Steve Scalise and other Republicansâ anti-MLK Day votes under scrutiny. 01/19/15 11:28 AMâUpdated 01/19/15 04:44 PM. In 1999, then-Louisiana state Rep. Steve Scalise voted against implementing and later mandating the federal Martin Luther King holiday in his state.
In the House, 96 Democrats and 34 Republicans voted against the Civil Rights Act, passing with an overall 290-130 vote. While most Democrats in both chambers voted for it, the bulk of the opposition still was from Democrats.mail this story to a friend. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat with a mixed record on race, signed the Civil Rights Act into law â something his Republican challenger in that yearâs election, Sen. Barry Goldwater, had voted against, despite having a solid civil rights record up to that point.