House Roll Call 316, 94th Congress · July 24, 1975

TO PASS H.R. 8714, A BILL TO AMEND THE RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT ACT TO INCREASE UNEMPLOYMENT AND SICKNESS BENEFITS.

420 yea · 0 nay14 not voting or present

Democrat278 yea · 0 nay

Republican139 yea · 0 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8714 ↗

An Act to amend the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to increase unemployment and sickness benefits, and for other purposes.

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): Increasing unemployment and sickness benefits directly favors workers.
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 (420)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (14)

Ike Franklin AndrewsDid not vote
Tim Lee CarterDid not vote
John Herman DentDid not vote
Charles Coles Diggs Jr.Did not vote
Richard Harmon FultonDid not vote
William Howard HarshaDid not vote
Andrew Jackson HinshawDid not vote
James John HowardDid not vote
Andrew Jacobs Jr.Did not vote
Torbert Hart MacdonaldDid not vote
Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
Dale MilfordDid not vote
John Michael MurphyDid not vote
Olin Earl TeagueDid not vote

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