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01-H128 on May 1, 2001

RESOLUTION: Recognizing the unique effects that proposals to reform Social Security may have on women.
  • Whereas the Social Security benefit structure is of particular importance to low-earning wives and widows, with 63% of women beneficiaries aged 62 or older receiving wife's or widow's benefits;
  • Whereas 3/4 of unmarried and widowed elderly women rely on Social Security for over half of their income;
  • Whereas without Social Security benefits, the elderly poverty rate among women would have been 52.2% and among widows would have been 60.6%;
  • Whereas women tend to live longer and tend to have lower lifetime earnings than men do;
  • Whereas women spend an average of 11.5 years out of their careers to care for their families, and are more likely to work part-time than full-time; and
  • Whereas during these years in the workforce, women earn an average of 70 cents for every dollar men earn:
  • Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives recognizes the unique obstacles that women face in ensuring retirement security and survivor and disability stability and the essential role that Social Security plays in guaranteeing inflation-protected financial stability for women throughout their entire old age, and it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the Congress and the President should take these factors into account when considering proposals to reform the Social Security system.


    Participating counts on VoteMatch question 6.
  • Topic: Social Security
  • Headline: Changing Social Security disproportionately affects women (Score: -1)
  • Headline 2: Changing Social Security disproportionately affects women (Score: -1)
  • Key for participation codes:
  • Sponsorships: p=sponsored; o=co-sponsored; s=signed
  • Memberships: c=chair; m=member; e=endorsed; f=profiled; s=scored
  • Resolutions: i=introduced; w=wrote; a=adopted
  • Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred



Democrats participating in 01-H128

Gary Ackerman s2oNew York Dem./Ind./Lib./Working-Fam.
Tom Allen s2oMaine Democrat
John Baldacci s2oMaine Democrat
Tammy Baldwin s2oWisconsin Democrat
Ken Bentsen s2oTexas Democrat
Shelley Berkley s2oNevada Democrat
Howard Berman s2oCalifornia Democrat
Sanford Bishop s2oGeorgia Democrat
Rod Blagojevich s2oIL Democrat
David Bonior s2oMichigan Democrat
Robert Brady s2oPennsylvania Democrat
Corrine Brown s2oFlorida Democrat
Lois Capps s2oCalifornia Democrat
Eva Clayton s2oNorth Carolina Democrat (Until 2004)
Joseph Crowley s2oNew York Democrat
Elijah Cummings s2oMaryland Democrat
Danny Davis s2oIllinois Democrat
Susan Davis s2oCalifornia Democrat
Peter Defazio s2oOregon Democrat
Bill Delahunt s2oMassachusetts Democrat
Rosa DeLauro s1iConnecticut Democrat
Eliot Engel s2oNew York Democrat/Liberal
Anna Eshoo s2oCalifornia Democrat
Harold Ford s2oTennessee Democrat
Barney Frank s2oMassachusetts Democrat
Martin Frost s2oTexas Democrat (Until 2004)
Bart Gordon s2oTennessee Democrat
Gene Green s2oTexas Democrat
Earl Hilliard s2oAlabama Democrat
Maurice Hinchey s2oNew York Dem./Ind./Lib./Working-Fam.
Darlene Hooley s2oOregon Democrat
Sheila Jackson Lee s2oTexas Democrat
Eddie Bernice Johnson s2oTexas Democrat
Stephanie Tubbs Jones s2oOhio Democrat
Marcy Kaptur s2oOhio Democrat
Dale Kildee s2oMichigan Democrat
Carolyn Kilpatrick s2oMichigan Democrat
Dennis Kucinich s2oOhio Democrat
James Langevin s2oRhode Island Democrat
Tom Lantos s2oCalifornia Former Democrat (until 2008)
Barbara Lee s2oCalifornia Democrat
Sander Levin s2oMichigan Democrat
Zoe Lofgren s2oCalifornia Democrat
Nita Lowey s2oNew York Democrat
Bill Luther s2oMinnesota Democrat/Farmer/Labor
Carolyn Maloney s2oNew York Democrat/Liberal
Robert Matsui s2oCalifornia Democrat (deceased)
Karen McCarthy s2oMissouri Democrat (Until 2004)
Jim McDermott s2oWashington Democrat
Jim McGovern s2oMassachusetts Democrat
Cynthia McKinney s2oGeorgia Democrat
Michael McNulty s2oNew York Democratic/Ind./Cons.
Marty Meehan s2oMassachusetts Democrat
Carrie Meek s2oFlorida Democrat (retired 2002)
Juanita Millender-McDonald s2oCalifornia Democrat
George Miller s2oCalifornia Democrat
Patsy Mink s2oHawaii Democrat
Jerrold Nadler s2oNew York Dem./Lib./Working-Families
Grace Napolitano s2oCalifornia Democrat
Eleanor Holmes Norton s2oDistrict of Columbia Democrat
James Oberstar s2oMinnesota Democrat/Farmer/Labor
John Olver s2oMassachusetts Democrat
Donald Payne s2oNew Jersey Democrat
Nancy Pelosi s2oCalifornia Democrat
Charles Rangel s2oNew York Dem./Lib./Working-Families
Bobby Rush s2oIllinois Democrat
Loretta Sanchez s2oCalifornia Democrat
Jan Schakowsky s2oIllinois Democrat
Adam Schiff s2oCalifornia Democrat
Ronnie Shows s2oMississippi Democrat
Louise Slaughter s2oNew York Democrat
Pete Stark s2oCalifornia Democrat
Ted Strickland s2oOH Democrat
Bart Stupak s2oMichigan Democrat
Karen Thurman s2oFlorida Democrat
Mel Watt s2oNorth Carolina Democrat
Henry Waxman s2oCalifornia Democrat
Robert Wexler s2oFlorida Democrat
Lynn Woolsey s2oCalifornia Democrat
Albert Wynn s2oMaryland Democrat



Republicans participating in 01-H128

Henry Brown s2oSouth Carolina Republican



Independents participating in 01-H128

Donna Christensen s2oVirgin Islands -
Bernie Sanders s2oVermont Independent



Total recorded by OnTheIssues:

Democrats: 80
Republicans: 1
Independents: 2

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