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Senate Roll Call 408, 113th Congress · April 30, 2014

A bill to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend increased expensing limitations and the treatment of certain real property as section 179 property.

Question before the chamber: On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed

54 yea · 42 nayCloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected4 not voting or present
Democrat50 yea · 1 nay
Republican1 yea · 41 nay
Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2223

Minimum Wage 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.

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

    model(0.80): Advancing the bill extends tax expensing limitations, lowering tax revenues.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”

    model(0.90): Advancing an increase in the federal minimum wage favors worker interests.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment

    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.

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