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Senate Roll Call 212, 102nd Congress · October 1, 1991

A bill to provide emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes. — S.1722 BY BENTSEN (D-TX) -- EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ACT OF 1991 (VETOED, 10/11/91) (SENATE AGREED TO THE MOTION TO WAIVE SECTION 306 OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF THE CONFERENCE REPORT.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

65 yea · 34 nayMotion Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat56 yea · 0 nay
Republican7 yea · 34 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1722 ↗

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): Waiving budget rules advances emergency unemployment compensation, supporting worker priorities.

    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 (65)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (1)

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