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Senate Roll Call 290, 101st Congress · November 8, 1989

To provide that the Congress shall not increase the business costs for small businesses that engage in an industry affecting commerce by enacting legislation that requires additional paperwork, capital expenditures, compliance costs, or taxes. — TO TABLE THE SYMMS (R, ID) AMENDMENT TO HR 2710, MINIMUM WAGE, TO STATE THAT CONGRESS WILL NOT RAISE BUSINESS COSTS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES ENGAGED IN INDUSTRIES AFFECTING COMMERCE BY REQUIRING EXTRA PAPERWORK OR COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

64 yea · 34 nayMotion to Table Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 4 nay
Republican14 yea · 30 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2710 ↗

Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1989

Policy area: Labor and Employment — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”

    model(0.85): Tabling a measure protecting small businesses from compliance costs favors regulatory worker protections over employer priority.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (64)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (2)

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