Senate Roll Call 641, 93rd Congress · March 5, 1974
TO AMEND S. 2747 BY INCREASING MINIMUM WAGE TO $2.30 INSTEAD OF $2.20.
19 yea · 76 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 53 nay
Republican17 yea · 23 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
No bill title on file from congress.gov for this measure.
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(0.98): Increasing the minimum wage rate from $2.20 to $2.30 benefits workers.
Tagged by: keyword:minimum wage
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 (19)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Peter Hoyt Dominick
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Robert William Packwood
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Robert Taft Jr.
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (77)
- James George Abourezk
- George David Aiken
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Alan Harvey Bible
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Norris H. Cotton
- Alan Cranston
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Hiram Leong Fong
- James William Fulbright
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Goodwin Tower
- John Varick Tunney
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (5)
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Frank Edward MossDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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