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House Roll Call 617, 101st Congress · July 25, 1990

FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT OF 1989 — TO OVERRIDE THE PRESIDENT'S VETO OF HR 770, FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT OF 1990, TO ENTITLE EMPLOYEES TO FAMILY LEAVE IN CERTAIN CASES INVOLVING A BIRTH, AND ADOPTION, OR A SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION. (VETO SUSTAINED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT NOT VOTING IN FAVOR.)

Question before the chamber: ON PRESIDENTIAL VETO

232 yea · 195 nayFailed4 not voting or present
Democrat193 yea · 50 nay
Republican39 yea · 144 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 770 ↗

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1990

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(0.95): Overriding the veto passes mandated family leave, prioritizing workers' rights over employer discretion.

    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 (233)

Nay (195)

Not voting or present (4)

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