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Senate Roll Call 221, 102nd Congress · October 16, 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) (TWO-THIRDS OF THE SENATORS VOTING NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, S. 1722, TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION, UPON RECONSIDERATION, WAS REJECTED, AND THE VETO OF THE PRESIDENT WAS SUSTAINED.)

Question before the chamber: On Overriding the Veto

65 yea · 35 nayVeto Sustained
Democrat56 yea · 0 nay
Republican7 yea · 35 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(0.95): Overriding the veto enacts emergency unemployment compensation 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 (65)

Nay (35)

Not voting or present (0)

None

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.