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Senate Roll Call 544, 95th Congress · October 7, 1977

TO AMEND S. 1871 SO THAT WORKERS UNDER AGE 20 MAY BE HIRED AT 85% OF THE ADULT MINIMUM WAGE FOR THEIR FIRST SIX MONTHS ON THE JOB.

44 yea · 49 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat17 yea · 42 nay
Republican28 yea · 8 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(0.90): Allowing an 85 percent subminimum wage for youth workers lowers employer wage requirements.

    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 (46)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (4)

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