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Senate Roll Call 27, 109th Congress · March 7, 2005

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

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

38 yea · 61 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 42 nay
Republican37 yea · 17 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 256 ↗

Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005

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(0.85): Focusing on small business preservation in minimum wage legislation favors employer priorities.

    Tagged by: keyword:minimum wage

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

  • Financial RegulationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Labor and minimum wage adjustments do not regulate financial markets or institutions.

    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 (38)

Nay (61)

Not voting or present (1)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.