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Senate Roll Call 797, 104th Congress · July 9, 1996

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the minimum wage rate and to exempt computer professionals from the minimum wage and maximum hour requirements, and to amend the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 relating to the payment of wages to employees who use employer-owned vehicles. — (SENATE REJECTED KENNEDY AMENDMENT NO. 4435, TO AMEND THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938 TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASE IN THE MINIMUM WAGE RATE AND TO EXEMPT COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS FROM THE MINIMUM WAGE AND MAXIMUM HOUR REQUIREMENTS, AND TO AMEND THE PORTAL-TO-PORTAL ACT OF 1947 RELATING TO THE PAYMENT OF WAGES TO EMPLOYEES WHO USE EMPLOYER-OWNED VEHICLES.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

46 yea · 52 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 4 nay
Republican2 yea · 47 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3448 ↗

Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996

Policy area: Taxation — 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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) The measure concerns labor standards and minimum wage, not tax policy.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”

    model(0.95): Raising the minimum wage rate moves toward worker priority.

    Tagged by: keyword:minimum wage

    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 (46)

Nay (52)

Not voting or present (2)

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