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Senate Roll Call 546, 95th Congress · October 7, 1977

TO TABLE DIVISION 2 OF THE DECONCINI AMENDMENT #1038 TO S. 1871. DIVISION 2 GIVES THE SECRETARY OF LABOR DISCRETIONARY AUTHORITY TO EXEMPT CERTAIN EMPLOYERS FROM THE SIX-PERSON LIMITATION ON THE NUMBER OF FULL-TIME STUDENTS THAT CAN BE HIRED FOR PART-TIME JOBS AT 85% OF THE ADULT MINIMUM WAGE.

43 yea · 48 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat36 yea · 19 nay
Republican8 yea · 28 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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): Tabling the exemption stops expanding subminimum wage allowances for student 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 (44)

Nay (48)

Not voting or present (8)

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