House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Working Families Flexibility Act of 1997
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 7, 1997
- Committee actionMar 5, 1997
- Passed HouseMar 19, 1997 · 222–210
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
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.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-21 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Education and Workforce Committee on March 13, 1997.Source: Congress.gov, reported March 13, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/21
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/1
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 23, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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.
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- H.R. 2869 (105th) Self-Audit Promotion Act of 1998
- H.R. 2873 (105th) To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
- H.R. 1592 (105th) ESOP Promotion Act of 1997
Sponsor’s state and district
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.