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Senate Roll Call 576, 105th Congress · September 22, 1998

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage. — (SENATE TABLED KENNEDY AMENDMENT NO. 3540 TO AMENDMENT NO. 3559, TO INCREASE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

55 yea · 44 nayMotion to Table Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 42 nay
Republican52 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1301 ↗

Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1998

Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector — 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 “Employer priority”

    model(0.95): Tabling kills the proposal to increase the federal minimum wage.

    Tagged by: keyword:minimum wage

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

  • Financial RegulationA yea counts toward “Deregulate”

    model(0.85): Tabling kills minimum wage increase, preventing additional labor regulation.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Finance and Financial Sector

    Axis: Regulate ← → Deregulate

Who voted which way

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

Yea (55)

Nay (44)

Not voting or present (1)

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