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House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law

Working Families Flexibility Act of 1997

H.R. 1Introduced Jan 7, 1997Policy area: Labor and Employment
Sponsor: Rep. Cass Ballenger R-NC
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Where it went

Latest action: Mar 20, 1997 — Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate (as of March 23, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1, last updated March 23, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 28, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.

Vote results

No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).

Cosponsors

99 cosponsors — 97 Republicans, 2 Democrats

2 of 99 cosponsors (2%) are from the other party.

Richard Baker (R-LA), Bob Barr (R-GA), Bill Barrett (R-NE), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Thomas Bliley (R-VA), Roy Blunt (R-MO), John Boehner (R-OH), Jim Bunning (R-KY), Richard Burr (R-NC), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Tom Campbell (R-CA), Charles Canady (R-FL), Helen Chenoweth-Hage (R-ID), Jon Christensen (R-NE), Howard Coble (R-NC), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Merrill Cook (R-UT), Christopher Cox (R-CA), Barbara Cubin (R-WY), Randy Cunningham (R-CA), Tom DeLay (R-TX), Nathan Deal (R-GA), Jay Dickey (R-AR), Cal Dooley (D-CA), John Doolittle (R-CA), David Dreier (R-CA), John Duncan (R-TN), Jennifer Dunn (R-WA), Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), Robert Ehrlich (R-MD) and 69 more.

More from the sponsor

Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Cass Ballenger.

Sponsor’s state and district

North Carolina in Congress · NC-10 district

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Data as of Sep 29, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.