House Roll Call 523, 95th Congress · September 19, 1977

TO PASS H.R. 4544.

283 yea · 100 nay37 not voting or present

Democrat241 yea · 18 nay

Republican48 yea · 87 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 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 “Worker priority”
model(0.95): Improving the Black Lung Benefits program expands protections and compensation for coal miners.
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 (290)

Nay (107)

Not voting or present (37)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.