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House Roll Call 903, 96th Congress · May 22, 1980

TO AMEND H.R. 3904, MULTI EMPLOYER PENSION PLANS, BY PROVIDING A HIGHER LEVEL OF GUARANTEES FOR PLANS THAT ELECT TO AMORTIZE THE COST OF UNFUNDED LIABILITIES OVER A 20 YEAR PERIOD. (MOTION FAILED)

160 yea · 218 nay37 not voting or present
Democrat22 yea · 213 nay
Republican144 yea · 15 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.

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”

    model(0.90): Providing higher pension guarantees prioritizes worker protections.

    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 (168)

Nay (228)

Not voting or present (37)

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