Date: April 18, 1961
Subject: Minimum Wage Coverage
Description: Dirksen (R-IL) amendment to substitute for the coverage provisions of the committee bill those of the House-passed Ayres-Kitchin bill, extending minimum-wage but not overtime provisions to about 1.3 million additional persons (compared with the 4,086,000 in the committee bill), while retaining the minimum-wage raise from $1 an hour to $1.25 an hour provided by the committee bill.
Result: Amendment Rejected, 34-63
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