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House Roll Call 54, 105th Congress · March 19, 1997

H.R.1 BY BALLENGER (R-NC) -- WORKING FAMILIES FLEXIBILITY ACT OF 1997 (HOUSE AGREED TO THE GOODLING EN BLOC AMENDMENT THAT REQUIRES CONTINUOUS EMPLOYMENT OF AT LEAST 1,000 HOURS WITHIN THE LAST YEAR BEFORE AN EMPLOYEE MAY AGREE TO OR RECEIVE COMPENSATORY TIME AND REDUCES THE MAXIMUM HOURS OF COMPENSATORY TIME ACCRUED BY THE EMPLOYEE FROM 240 TO 160 HOURS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

408 yea · 19 nayAgreed to5 not voting or present
Democrat187 yea · 13 nay
Republican220 yea · 6 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1 ↗

Working Families Flexibility Act of 1997

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(0.80): Restricts comp time accrual and adds eligibility limits, preserving traditional worker overtime protections.

    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 (408)

Nay (19)

Not voting or present (5)

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