House Roll Call 329, 98th Congress · September 21, 1983

TO AMEND THE JEFFORDS AMENDMENT TO H.R. 1036. THE JEFFORDS AMENDMENT PHASES DOWN THE AUTHORIZATION LEVEL AS UNEMPLOYMENT RATES DECLINE, AND PROVIDES A CUT-OFF OF THE AUTHORIZATION SHOULD UNEMPLOYMENT FALL BELOW SIX PERCENT. THE HAWKINS AMENDMENT CUTS OFF THE AUTHORIZATION SHOULD UNEMPLOYMENT FALL BELOW FOUR PERCENT, BUT PROVIDES AUTHORIZATION FOR AREAS OF SUBSTANTIAL UNEMPLOYMENT WHERE THERE IS AT LEAST 6.5 PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT DURING THE PRECEDING 12 MONTH PERIOD. (MOTION FAILED)

208 yea · 210 nay9 not voting or present

Democrat205 yea · 48 nay

Republican5 yea · 163 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1036 ↗

Community Renewal Employment Act

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): Lowering the unemployment threshold cutoff extends job creation assistance to more workers.
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 (211)

Nay (213)

Not voting or present (9)

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