Senate Roll Call 239, 106th Congress · July 30, 1999

To increase the Federal minimum wage.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

46 yea · 54 nayMotion Rejected

Democrat44 yea · 1 nay

Republican1 yea · 52 nay

Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1429 ↗

Taxpayer Refund Act of 1999

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 (0.90) Minimum wage changes do not directly align with tax cuts or revenue raising.
Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”
model(0.95): Increasing the federal minimum wage favors workers over employers.
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 (54)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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