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House Roll Call 344, 98th Congress · September 29, 1983

TO RECOMMIT H.R. 3929 TO THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS WITH INSTRUCTIONS THAT IT BE REPORTED BACK FORTHWITH CONTAINING AN AMENDMENT TO EXTEND THE CURRENT PROGRAM FOR 18 MONTHS, PROVIDING MAXIMUM BENEFITS TO STATES WITH THE HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATES. H.R. 3929 EXTENDS THE FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTAL COMPENSATION ACT OF 1982. (MOTION FAILED)

141 yea · 278 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 238 nay
Republican126 yea · 39 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3929

Federal Supplemental Compensation Amendments of 1983

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(0.95): Recommitting with instructions to extend unemployment benefits and maximize benefits moves toward worker priority.

    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 (141)

Nay (278)

Not voting or present (14)

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