# H.Res. 988 (119th): This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R

This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 2988) to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to specify requirements concerning the consideration of pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2262) to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude certain activities from hours worked, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2270) to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude child and dependent care services and payments from the rate used to compute overtime compensation; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2312) to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to revise the definition of the term ''tipped employee'', and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4366) to clarify the treatment of 2 or more employers as joint employers under the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: childcare_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: employment_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: family_policy. Category: children. Lane tag: command.
Lane: labor_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: procedural. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: procedural_rule. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: retirement_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: retirement_savings. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: wage_and_hour. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 16: On Ordering the Previous Question. Vote type: procedural.
Roll 17: On Agreeing to the Resolution. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure advances procedural consideration of several labor and benefits bills whose effects are prudential disputes over wage calculation, worker classification, tip rules, and fiduciary standards. It does not directly advance or restrain a named moral evil, so it fits the mixed category rather than good or evil.
Theological note: The resolution itself is a procedural vehicle. Its underlying subjects touch on stewardship of retirement assets, fair wages and honest labor, care for dependents, and the just treatment of workers and employers. These are issues of general equity that call for prudent judgment, not a direct moral verdict on the procedural act.

## Recorded votes

Roll 16: On Ordering the Previous Question. Yea 206 · Nay 205 · Other 20.
Roll 17: On Agreeing to the Resolution. Yea 214 · Nay 207 · Other 10.

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