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House Roll Call 1171, 96th Congress · September 19, 1980

TO ADOPT A CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 3904, AMENDING THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974 AND THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1954 TO IMPROVE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY UNDER PRIVATE MULTIEMPLOYER PENSION PLANS BY STRENGTHENING THE FUNDING REQUIREMENTS FOR THOSE PLANS, TO AUTHORIZE PLAN PRESERVATION MEASURES FOR FINANCIALLY TROUBLED MULTIEMPLOYER PENSION PLANS, AND TO REVISE THE MANNER IN WHICH THE PENSION PLAN TERMINATION INSURANCE PROVISIONS APPLY TO MULTIEMPLOYER PLANS. (MOTION PASSED)

324 yea · 1 nay104 not voting or present
Democrat202 yea · 1 nay
Republican123 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3904

An act to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to improve retirement income security under private multiemployer pension plans by strengthening the funding requirements for those plans, to authorize plan preservation measures for financially troubled multiemployer pension plans, and to revise the manner in which the pension plan termination insurance provisions apply to multiemployer plans, and for other purposes.

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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Pension plan funding rules are regulatory rather than direct tax increases or cuts.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”

    model(0.90): Strengthens funding and protections for multiemployer pension plans, benefiting workers.

    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 (327)

Nay (1)

Not voting or present (104)

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