Senate Roll Call 534, 95th Congress · October 6, 1977
TO AMEND THE WILLIAMS AMENDMENT (SEE RC 537) TO S. 1871, THE BILL PROVIDING FOR AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENTS OF THE MINIMUM WAGE RATE. THE BARTLETT AMENDMENT PROVIDES FOR AN INCREASE OF THE MINIMUM WAGE TO $2.50 IN 1978, $2.70 IN 1979, AND $2.90 IN 1980.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Fair Labor Standards Amendments
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 “Employer priority”
model(0.85): Offering a lower minimum wage increase than proposed prioritizes employer costs.
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.
Yea (17)
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- James Albertus McClure
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (74)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (9)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- Robert Burren MorganDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
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