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Senate Roll Call 552, 110th Congress · April 23, 2008

A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to clarify that adiscriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant tothe discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

56 yea · 42 nayCloture Motion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat49 yea · 1 nay
Republican5 yea · 41 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2831 ↗

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007

Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — 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.

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”

    model(0.95): Broadens worker protections against pay discrimination by resetting the statute of limitations each paycheck.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

Who voted which way

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

Yea (56)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (2)

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