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Senate Roll Call 539, 95th Congress · October 6, 1977

TO AMEND THE STAFFORD AMENDMENT (SEE RC 540) TO S. 1871 BY GRADUALLY REDUCING THE TIP CREDIT FROM 50% TO 40%.

42 yea · 47 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat20 yea · 35 nay
Republican21 yea · 13 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 “Worker priority”

    model(0.85): Reducing the tip credit requires employers to pay higher direct wages to tipped workers.

    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 (42)

Nay (48)

Not voting or present (10)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.