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House Roll Call 855, 105th Congress · June 11, 1998

H.R.2888 BY FAWELL (R-IL) -- SALES INCENTIVE COMPENSATION ACT (HOUSE REJECTED THE OWENS AMENDMENT, DEBATED ON JUNE 10, THAT SOUGHT TO REQUIRE THE EMPLOYEE'S CONSENT TO WORK ANY HOURS IN EXCESS OF 40 IN A WORKWEEK OR 8 IN ANY DAY. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

181 yea · 246 nayFailed6 not voting or present
Democrat178 yea · 20 nay
Republican2 yea · 226 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2888 ↗

Sales Incentive Compensation Act

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): Protects workers by requiring explicit employee consent before working mandatory overtime hours.

    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 (181)

Nay (246)

Not voting or present (6)

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