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| 1991-07-17 | Striker Replacement [HR5] | Passed (247-182) |
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| Passage of the bill to prohibit employers from hiring permanent replacements for workers striking over economic issues, if the strike was by union-represented employees. | |||||
| 1991-09-17 | Unemployment Benefits Extension [HR3040] | Passed (283-125) |
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| Passage of the bill to permanently extend unemployment benefits to long-term unemployed workers for up to 20 additional weeks at an estimated cost of $6.3 billion through fiscal 1996. The bill automatically declares the benefits to be "emergency" spending and would not require a presidential declaration to be exempt from the spending requirements of the 1990 budget agreement. As such, it represents a further reduction of incentive for workers. | |||||
| 1991-10-16 | Omnibus Crime Bill [HR3371] | Agreed To (213-206) |
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| Gekas (R-PA) amendment to allow the jury in capital cases to impose the death penalty where there has been a reckless disregard for life. The amendment also removes the requirement that the jury be told that it does not have to impose the death penalty anytime before sentencing. | |||||
| 1991-10-17 | Omnibus Crime Bill [HR3371] | Rejected (208-218) |
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| Hyde (R-IL) amendment to prohibit habeas corpus appeals in cases that had a "full and fair" hearing at the state level; require all habeas corpus appeals to be filed within one year of exhausting state appeals; limit death row prisoners to one federal habeas corpus petition that must be filed within six months of exhausting appeals; and set time limits for consideration of habeas corpus petitions. | |||||
| 1991-10-22 | Omnibus Crime Bill [HR3371] | Agreed To (223-191) |
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| McCollum (R-FL) amendment to strike provisions in the Omnibus Crime Bill that would have effectively nullified all state and federal death penalty statutes. The Crime Bill provisions would have prohibited the execution of death row prisoners who claim that evidence demonstrates that the death penalty had been previously imposed in that jurisdiction in a racially disproportionate manner. This amendment would prohibit considering race in determining a defendant's sentence, and prohibit using statistics to invalidate a sentence. | |||||
| 1991-11-13 | Family and Medical Leave Act [HR2] | Passed (253-177) |
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| Vote on passage of the bill to force public and private employers to give employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave a year for serious illness, or to care for a new child or a sick child, parent, or spouse. On top of the onerous cost to small businesses, the unintended effect of the bill is to reduce employment opportunities for young married women. | |||||
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