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Senate Roll Call 258, 109th Congress · October 19, 2005

To promote job creation, and small business preservation in the adjustment of the Federal minimum wage.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

42 yea · 57 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 42 nay
Republican41 yea · 13 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 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 “Employer priority”

    model(0.85): Focusing on small business preservation in minimum wage adjustments favors employer interests.

    Tagged by: keyword:minimum wage

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) The measure text does not specify direct federal budget spending or revenue impacts.

    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 (42)

Nay (57)

Not voting or present (1)

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