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House Roll Call 101, 105th Congress · May 6, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE WATT OF NORTH CAROLINA AMENDMENT REQUIRING THAT PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCIES COMPENSATE EACH PERSON WHO PROVIDES WORK AT A RATE THAT IS NOT LESS THAN THE MINIMUM WAGE RATE.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

140 yea · 286 nayFailed7 not voting or present
Democrat138 yea · 61 nay
Republican1 yea · 225 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2 ↗

Housing Opportunity and Responsibility Act of 1997

Policy area: Housing and Community Development — 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(0.95): Guarantees minimum wage compensation for workers in public housing.

    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 (140)

Nay (286)

Not voting or present (7)

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