Senate Roll Call 542, 95th Congress · October 7, 1977
TO AMEND S. 1871 SO THAT WORKERS BETWEEN AGE 16 AND 20 MAY BE HIRED AT 85% OF THE ADULT MINIMUM WAGE.
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(0.90): Establishing a subminimum wage for youth workers 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 (40)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (55)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (5)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
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