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House Roll Call 393, 95th Congress · July 15, 1977

TO AMEND H.R. 4287 BY ALLOWING THE STATES TO PROMULGATE THEIR OWN SAFETY LAWS AND HOLD THEIR OWN INSPECTIONS, PROVIDED THAT THE STATE PLANS ADEQUATELY COMPLY WITH THE FEDERAL GUIDELINES.

165 yea · 169 nay73 not voting or present
Democrat63 yea · 173 nay
Republican112 yea · 10 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4287

Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments 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 “Employer priority”

    model(0.85): Allowing state-level plans and inspections weakens federal worker safety standards, favoring employers.

    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 (176)

Nay (184)

Not voting or present (73)

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