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Senate Roll Call 311, 95th Congress · July 21, 1977

TO AMEND S. 1538, THE BLACK LUNG BENEFITS REVENUE ACT OF 1977, BY DELETING SECTION 105 AND RESERVING THE RIGHT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CONDUCT THEIR OWN X-RAY EXAMINATIONS OF CLAIMANTS.

41 yea · 49 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat13 yea · 43 nay
Republican28 yea · 7 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1538 ↗

Black Lung Benefits Reform Act

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(0.80): Allows government re-examination of black lung claims, creating hurdles for disabled 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 (42)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (8)

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