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House Roll Call 1235, 104th Congress · July 26, 1996

Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 — H.R.3448 BY ARCHER (R-TX) -- SMALL BUSINESS JOB PROTECTION ACT OF 1996 GSP RENEWAL ACT OF 1996 EMPLOYEE COMMUTING FLEXIBILITY ACT OF 1996 MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE ACT OF 1996 (PUB. L. 104-188, APPROVED 8/20/96) (HOUSE AGREED TO THE CLAY MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES TO REPORT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THEIR RESOLUTION OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE HOUSES, BECAUSE THE MINIMUM WAGE IS AT ITS LOWEST REAL VALUE IN 40 YEARS AND BECAUSE WORKING FAMILIES DESERVE A RAISE.)

Question before the chamber: Motion to Instruct Conferees

365 yea · 26 nayPassed42 not voting or present
Democrat173 yea · 0 nay
Republican191 yea · 26 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3448 ↗

Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996

Policy area: Taxation — 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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Motion focuses on raising the minimum wage rather than tax revenue policies.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”

    model(0.95): Motion instructs conferees to report a minimum wage increase, supporting worker priority.

    Tagged by: keyword:minimum wage

    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 (365)

Nay (26)

Not voting or present (42)

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