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House Roll Call 699, 96th Congress · February 6, 1980

TO RECOMMIT H.R. 5507, REDUCTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BY RETIREMENT BENEFITS, TO COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO ADD AN AMENDMENT CHANGING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE FEDERAL REQUIREMENT FROM JAN. 1, 1982 TO JULY 1, 1981. (MOTION FAILED)

188 yea · 215 nay18 not voting or present
Democrat52 yea · 204 nay
Republican141 yea · 15 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5507 ↗

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to eliminate the requirement that States reduce the amount of unemployment compensation payable for any week by the amount of certain retirement benefits, 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(0.85): Advancing the effective date of unreduced unemployment compensation benefits workers sooner.

    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 (194)

Nay (221)

Not voting or present (18)

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