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House Roll Call 352, 96th Congress · July 25, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 3920, UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION COMMISSION, BY STRIKING LANGUAGE EXTENDING UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1982 THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN ALIEN FARM WORKERS FROM FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE TAX. (MOTION FAILED)

85 yea · 325 nay23 not voting or present
Democrat80 yea · 172 nay
Republican4 yea · 152 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3920

A bill to amend the Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1976 with respect to the National Commission on Unemployment Compensation, 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.

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”

    model(0.75): Striking an exclusion expands worker coverage under unemployment insurance.

    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 (85)

Nay (326)

Not voting or present (23)

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