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House Roll Call 56, 105th Congress · March 19, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE OWENS AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO EXEMPT EMPLOYEES WHO EARN LESS THAN 2.5 TIMES THE MINIMUM WAGE.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

182 yea · 237 nayFailed13 not voting or present
Democrat174 yea · 20 nay
Republican7 yea · 217 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1 ↗

Working Families Flexibility Act of 1997

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): Exempting low-wage workers keeps guaranteed cash overtime pay, protecting worker interests.

    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 (182)

Nay (237)

Not voting or present (13)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.