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House Roll Call 636, 104th Congress · September 12, 1995

(HOUSE REJECTED THE HINCHEY AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO PROVIDE THAT NOTHING IN THE BILL COULD BE CONSTRUED AS PROHIBITING THE INVESTMENT BY AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN IN DOMESTIC INVESTMENTS, AS DISTINGUISHED FROM FOREIGN INVESTMENTS, AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY TO TAKE SUCH ACTIONS AS NECESSARY TO ENCOURAGE DOMESTIC INVESTMENTS BY PENSION PLANS TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH INVESTMENTS ARE IN CONFORMITY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF ERISA.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

179 yea · 234 nayFailed21 not voting or present
Democrat174 yea · 7 nay
Republican4 yea · 227 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1594 ↗

To place restrictions on the promotion by the Department of Labor and other Federal agencies and instrumentalities of economically targeted investments in connection with employee benefit plans.

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(0.85): A yes vote encourages domestic investments by pension plans, favoring 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 (179)

Nay (234)

Not voting or present (21)

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