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Senate Roll Call 229, 95th Congress · June 21, 1977

TO AMEND S. 717 BY RETAINING THE PRESENT LAW WHICH LEAVES THE ADMINISTRATION OF HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARDS TO THE SEPARATE STATE GOVERNMENTS.

35 yea · 61 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat11 yea · 48 nay
Republican23 yea · 13 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 717 ↗

Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977

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(0.90): Leaving safety regulation to states avoids federal enforcement, 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 (35)

Nay (61)

Not voting or present (4)

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.