Senate Roll Call 830, 96th Congress · July 29, 1980

TO AMEND H.R. 3904 BY INCREASING THE MANDATORY DE MINIMIS REDUCTION CEILING FROM $50,000 TO $100,000. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 35

47 yea · 42 nay11 not voting or present

Democrat15 yea · 36 nay

Republican31 yea · 6 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

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 “Employer priority”
model(0.80): Raises de minimis reduction ceiling on pension withdrawal liability, favoring employers.
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 (47)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (11)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.