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Senate Roll Call 158, 102nd Congress · July 29, 1991

A bill to provide emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes. — S.1554 BY BENTSEN (D-TX) -- EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ACT OF 1991 (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE AGREED TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON THE MOTION TO PROCEED TO THE CONSIDERATION OF S. 1554, PROVIDING EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.)

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

96 yea · 1 nayCloture Motion Agreed to3 not voting or present
Democrat55 yea · 0 nay
Republican39 yea · 1 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1554 ↗

Emergency Unemployment Compensation 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(0.90): Advancing emergency unemployment compensation supports worker financial relief.

    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 (96)

Nay (1)

Not voting or present (3)

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