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House Roll Call 757, 95th Congress · February 15, 1978

TO AGREE TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 4544, THE BLACK LUNG BENEFITS REFORM ACT OF 1977.

264 yea · 113 nay37 not voting or present
Democrat226 yea · 26 nay
Republican46 yea · 94 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): Reforming and expanding Black Lung benefits directly protects coal miners' health and economic security.

    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 (273)

Nay (122)

Not voting or present (37)

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