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Senate Roll Call 646, 111th Congress · November 17, 2010

A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

58 yea · 41 nayCloture Motion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat55 yea · 1 nay
Republican0 yea · 40 nay
Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 3772 ↗

Paycheck Fairness Act

Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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): Advancing legislation prohibiting wage discrimination prioritizes worker rights.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”

    model(0.95): Advancing the Paycheck Fairness Act broadens protections against sex discrimination in compensation.

    Tagged by: keyword:discrimination

    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 (58)

Nay (41)

Not voting or present (1)

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