Senate Roll Call 548, 95th Congress · October 7, 1977
TO OFFER AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR S. 1871. THE CHILES AMENDMENT EMBODIES THE PROVISIONS OF THE HOUSE VERSION OF THE BILL AND CONSEQUENTLY PROPOSES THAT THE MINIMUM WAGE BE RAISED TO $2.65 IN 1978, $2.85 IN 1979 AND $3.05 IN 1980.
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 “Worker priority”
model(0.85): Raising the minimum wage over a multi-year period advances worker wages.
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 (29)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Robert Burren Morgan
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (60)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- 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.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- 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
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (11)
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Carl Thomas CurtisDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
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