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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.

17 yea · 72 nay9 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 55 nay
Republican15 yea · 19 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1871

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)

Nay (74)

Not voting or present (9)

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