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House Roll Call 368, 109th Congress · July 12, 2005

Occupational Safety and Health Small Business Day in Court Act

Question before the chamber: On Passage

256 yea · 164 nayPassed13 not voting or present
Democrat31 yea · 163 nay
Republican225 yea · 0 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 739 ↗

To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide for adjudicative flexibility with regard to the filing of a notice of contest by an employer following the issuance of a citation or proposed assessment of a penalty by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, to provide for greater efficiency at the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, to provide for judicial deference to conclusions of law determined by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission with respect to an order issued by the Commission, and to provide for the award of attorneys' fees and costs to small employers when such employers prevail in litigation prompted by the issuance of a citation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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(0.90): Allows small employers easier legal recourse against OSHA, prioritizing employer interests over worker safety enforcement.

    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 (256)

Nay (164)

Not voting or present (13)

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