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Senate Roll Call 257, 109th Congress · October 19, 2005

To provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

47 yea · 51 nayMotion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 0 nay
Republican3 yea · 51 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3058 ↗

Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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(0.95): Raising the federal minimum wage prioritizes worker compensation.

    Tagged by: keyword:minimum wage

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Federal minimum wage policy is a wage mandate on employers, not direct government spending.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (47)

Nay (51)

Not voting or present (2)

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