Date: March 24, 1961
Subject: Limit Minimum Wage Coverage
Description: Ayres (R-OH)-Kitchin (D-NC) amendment substituting a new text raising the minimum wage for the 23.9 million covered workers to $1.15 an hour, and extending minimum-wage coverage (at $1 an hour) but not overtime coverage to 1,300,000 additional workers. The committee version would raise the minimum wage for the 23.9 million workers already covered from $1 to $1.25 an hour in two steps, and extend minimum wage and overtime coverage to 4,311,000 additional workers.
Result: Agreed to, 216-203
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