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Senate Roll Call 497, 100th Congress · March 28, 1988

TO INVOKE CLOTURE, THEREBY LIMITING DEBATE ON THE LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO S 79, HIGH RISK OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE NOTIFICATION AND PREVENTION ACT; TO NOTIFY WORKERS AT RISK OF DISEASE FROM EXPOSURE TO TOXIC SUBSTANCES. MOTION REJECTED, THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

41 yea · 44 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat35 yea · 13 nay
Republican6 yea · 34 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 79 ↗

High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act of 1987

Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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.

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”

    model(0.90): Invoking cloture advances worker occupational disease notification legislation, prioritizing worker safety.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (41)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (12)

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