House Roll Call 1598, 110th Congress · June 19, 2008

Providing for consideration of H.R. 5781, to provide that 8 of the 12 weeks of parental leave made available to a Federal employee shall be paid leave

Question before the chamber: On Ordering the Previous Question

222 yea · 197 nayPassed14 not voting or present

Democrat222 yea · 2 nay

Republican0 yea · 195 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5781) to provide that 8 of the 12 weeks of parental leave made available to a Federal employee shall be paid leave, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Congress — 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 & WagesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Ordering the previous question on a special rule is a procedural motion.
Tagged by: keyword:paid leave
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 (222)

Nay (197)

Not voting or present (14)

Robert E. AndrewsDid not vote
Barbara L. CubinDid not vote
Norman D. DicksDid not vote
Eliot L. EngelDid not vote
Wayne T. GilchrestDid not vote
Kirsten E. GillibrandDid not vote
Brian HigginsDid not vote
Kenny C. HulshofDid not vote
David LoebsackDid not vote
Gregory W. MeeksDid not vote
Bobby L. RushDid not vote
Fortney Pete StarkDid not vote
Todd TiahrtDid not vote
Debbie Wasserman SchultzDid not vote

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