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House Roll Call 857, 102nd Congress · September 30, 1992

FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT — S.5 BY DODD (D-CT) -- FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT OF 1992 (VETOED, 9/22/92) (TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT NOT VOTING TO OVERRIDE, THE HOUSE SUSTAINED THE PRESIDENT'S VETO OF S. 5, TO GRANT EMPLOYEES FAMILY AND TEMPORARY MEDICAL LEAVE UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.)

Question before the chamber: PASSAGE, OBJECTION OF THE PRESIDENT NOTWITHSTANDING

258 yea · 169 nayFailed5 not voting or present
Democrat216 yea · 37 nay
Republican40 yea · 131 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 5 ↗

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1991

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 unpaid family and medical leave guarantees for workers.

    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 (258)

Nay (169)

Not voting or present (5)

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