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Senate Roll Call 356, 106th Congress · November 9, 1999

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

50 yea · 48 nayMotion to Table Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 44 nay
Republican50 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 625 ↗

Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999

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 a bill to raise the minimum wage blocks a worker-focused pay increase.

    Tagged by: keyword:minimum wage

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

  • Financial RegulationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Increasing the minimum wage is a labor policy issue, not a financial regulation policy.

    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 (50)

Nay (48)

Not voting or present (2)

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