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House Roll Call 636, 98th Congress · May 22, 1984

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 4280, A BILL AMENDING THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974 AND THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1954 TO IMPROVE THE DELIVERY OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS AND TO PROVIDE FOR GREATER EQUITY UNDER PRIVATE PENSION PLANS FOR WORKERS, THEIR SPOUSES AND DEPENDENTS BY TAKING INTO ACCOUNT CHANGES IN WORK PATTERNS, THE STATUS OF MARRIAGE AS AN ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP, AND THE SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTION TO THAT PARTNERSHIP OF SPOUSES WHO WORK BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE HOME. (MOTION PASSED;2/3 REQUIRED)

413 yea · 0 nay19 not voting or present
Democrat244 yea · 0 nay
Republican167 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4280

Retirement Equity Act of 1984

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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Pension equity legislation does not explicitly raise or lower overall tax revenue.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”

    model(0.95): Improving pension protections and equity favors worker priorities.

    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 (414)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (19)

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