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House Roll Call 522, 95th Congress · September 19, 1977

TO AMEND THE THOMPSON SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4544. THIS AMENDMENT OF THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM ILLINOIS WOULD DELETE LANGUAGE THAT PROHIBITS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FROM RE-EXAMINING THE X-RAYS SUBMITTED BY BLACK LUNG CLAIMANTS.

136 yea · 242 nay37 not voting or present
Democrat27 yea · 230 nay
Republican117 yea · 20 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4544 ↗

Black Lung Benefits Reform Act of 1977

Policy area: Black lung — 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): Permitting re-examination of X-rays makes black lung claims harder for workers to substantiate.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Black lung

    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 (146)

Nay (251)

Not voting or present (37)

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