House Roll Call 1599, 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 Agreeing to the Resolution

230 yea · 194 nayPassed9 not voting or present

Democrat228 yea · 1 nay

Republican2 yea · 193 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) Special rule governing consideration of a bill is procedural.
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 (230)

Nay (194)

Not voting or present (9)

Barbara L. CubinDid not vote
Eliot L. EngelDid not vote
Wayne T. GilchrestDid 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

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