To allow each Member of the House of Representatives to hire one additional employee, if the employee is hired from the welfare rolls, and to provide that, if such employment is in the District of Columbia, the jurisdiction represented by the Member may count the employment toward its welfare participation rate requirement.

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

21 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 19 Democrats

2 of 21 cosponsors (10%) are from the other party.

Corrine Brown (D-FL), Julia Carson (D-IN), Donna Christensen (D-VI), John Conyers (D-MI), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Danny Davis (D-IL), Bob Filner (D-CA), Thomas Foglietta (D-PA), Harold Ford (D-TN), Tony Hall (D-OH), Earl Hilliard (D-AL), Nancy Johnson (R-CT), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Carrie Meek (D-FL), Constance Morella (R-MD), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Earl Pomeroy (D-ND), Edolphus Towns (D-NY), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Albert Wynn (D-MD).

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• H.R. 2453 (105th) African-American Civil War Memorial Commemorative Coin Act
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Sponsor’s state and district

District of Columbia in Congress · DC at-large district