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House Roll Call 1201, 96th Congress · September 30, 1980

TO RECOMMIT H.R. 8146, FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTAL UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION PROGRAM, TO THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT THE BILL BACK CONTAINING AN AMENDMENT TO REQUIRE STATES TO QUALIFY FOR SUPPLEMENTAL COMPENSATION BENEFITS ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, RATHER THAN NATIONAL AVERAGE. (MOTION FAILED)

138 yea · 268 nay22 not voting or present
Democrat26 yea · 225 nay
Republican114 yea · 42 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8146

Federal Supplemental Unemployment Compensation Act of 1980

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): Restricts eligibility criteria for unemployment benefits, favoring employer cost containment.

    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 (140)

Nay (270)

Not voting or present (22)

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