David Ross Obey on Labor & Wages

DemocratWI

Labor & Wages353 votes · 84.2/100 consistent

Worker priorityEmployer priority

506 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Labor & Wages. 353 of them counted toward the score above: 306 toward “Worker priority” and 47 toward “Employer priority”.

The other 153 did not count: 139 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 14 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
1973-06-06	TO AMEND H.R. 7935 BY INCREASING THE MINIMUM WAGE RATE FOR AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYEES.H.R. 7935 · 93rd Congress	Nay	Employer priority
1973-06-06	TO AMEND H.R. 7935 BY SETTING THE MINIMUM WAGE RATE FOR AGRICULTURAL WORKERS AT $1.60 PER HOUR FOR FISCAL 1974, $1.70 PER HOUR FOR FISCAL 1975, AND $1.85 PER HOUR THEREAFTER.H.R. 7935 · 93rd Congress	Nay	Worker priority
1973-06-06	TO AMEND H.R. 7935 BY SETTING THE MINIMUM WAGE RATE FOR EMPLOYEES COVERED BEFORE 1966 AT $2.10 PER HOUR FOR THE YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 1974, AND TO $2.20 PER HOUR AFTER JUNE 30, 1975.H.R. 7935 · 93rd Congress	Nay	Employer priority
1973-06-06	TO AMEND H.R. 7935 BY SETTING THE MINIMUM WAGE RATE FOR EMPLOYEES COVERED BEFORE 1966 AT $1.90 PER HOUR FOR THE FIRST YEAR, AND $2.10 FOR THE SECOND YEARS AND $2.20 PER HR. THEREAFTER.H.R. 7935 · 93rd Congress	Nay	Worker priority
1973-06-06	TO AGREE TO AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR H.R. 7935.H.R. 7935 · 93rd Congress	Nay	Direction not readable
1973-06-06	TO AMEND H.R. 7935, A BILL TO AMEND THE FAIR LABOR ACT, BY INCREASING THE MINIMUM WAGE RATE FOR AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYEEES.H.R. 7935 · 93rd Congress	Yea	Worker priority

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Worker priority / Employer priority axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.