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Senate Roll Call 93, 105th Congress · June 4, 1997

A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide to private sector employees the same opportunities for time-and-a-half compensatory time off, biweekly work programs, and flexible credit hour programs as Federal employees currently enjoy to help balance the demands and needs of work and family, to clarify the provisions relating to exemptions of certain professionals from the minimum wage and overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and for other purposes. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON THE MODIFIED COMMITTEE AMENDMENT.)

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

51 yea · 47 nayCloture Motion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 44 nay
Republican51 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 4 ↗

Family Friendly Workplace Act

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 “Employer priority”

    model(0.85): Advancing comp-time legislation supported by employers and opposed by labor unions.

    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 (51)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (2)

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