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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.

29 yea · 59 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat10 yea · 45 nay
Republican18 yea · 15 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): 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)

Nay (60)

Not voting or present (11)

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