This electronic AFL-CIO Voting Record will let you know where your lawmakers stand on such working family issues as strengthening Social Security and Medicare, freedom to join a union, workplace safety and more.
The “Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act” would reduce critical regulatory protections for investors that are essential to safeguarding the retirement savings of America’s workers from fraud and other risks. The so-called “Jobs Act” would create few jobs and would instead inevitably weaken investor confidence in our capital markets by creating new and expanded loopholes in our securities laws. Weakened securities regulations increase the danger of fraud and speculation. The bill passed on March 22 by a vote of 73-26 (R: 46-0; D: 26-25; I: 1-1). Roll Call vote 55. Y=W, N=R.