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Hire More Heroes Act of 2015
(Sec. 2) This joint resolution amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt any employee with coverage under a health care program administered by the Department of Defense, including the TRICARE program, or by the Department of Veterans Affairs from classification as an eligible employee of an applicable large employer for purposes of the employer mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide eligible employees with minimum essential health care coverage.
(Sec. 3) The budgetary effects of this joint resolution are not entered on either PAYGO scorecard under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.J.Res. 61 as passed House without amendment on Jul 27, 2015. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Sep 10, 2015Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveSep 24, 2015
Senate Sep 10, 2015 · the primary vote
Motion to Invoke Cloture on McConnell Amdt. No. 2640
Cloture Motion Rejected
58 Yea 42 Nay
Party-line vote 4 of 100 voting members broke with their own party: 4 Democrats.
DemocratsIndependentsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
100 members on this roll call, from the official Senate record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.J.Res. 61 and vote against it. 0 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.J.Res. 61 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
35 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.