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Senate Roll Call 398, 112th Congress · June 21, 2012

To amend the National Labor Relations Act to permit employers to pay higher wages to their employees.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

45 yea · 54 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 50 nay
Republican45 yea · 1 nay
Independent0 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 3240 ↗

Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012

Policy area: Agriculture and Food — 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): Allowing employers to bypass union pay agreements prioritizes employer discretion over union bargaining.

    Tagged by: keyword:national labor relations

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

Who voted which way

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

Yea (45)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (1)

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