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House Roll Call 1061, 104th Congress · May 23, 1996

Employee Commuting Act — (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 1227, TO AMEND THE PORTAL-TO-PORTAL ACT OF 1947 RELATING TO THE PAYMENT OF WAGES TO EMPLOYEES WHO USE EMPLOYER OWNED VEHICLES.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

281 yea · 144 nayPassed8 not voting or present
Democrat187 yea · 5 nay
Republican93 yea · 139 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1227 ↗

To amend the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 relating to the payment of wages to employees who use employer owned vehicles.

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 “Employer priority”

    model(0.85): Exempting employers from paying wages for vehicle commute time favors employer priority.

    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 (281)

Nay (144)

Not voting or present (8)

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.