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House Roll Call 383, 99th Congress · November 21, 1985

TO APPROVE H R 1616 PLANT CLOSING AND NOTIFICATION. THE BILL REQUIRES EMPLOYERS OF 50 OR MORE EMPLOYEES TO GIVE AT LEAST 90 DAYS NOTICE BEFORE THEY CLOSE THEIR PLANTS OR LAY OFF OVER 30% OF THE EMPLOYEES.

203 yea · 208 nay13 not voting or present
Democrat184 yea · 51 nay
Republican22 yea · 161 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1616 ↗

Labor-Management Notification and Consultation Act of 1985

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): Mandating plant closing notification 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 (208)

Nay (213)

Not voting or present (13)

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