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Vote Data for S1861 (92nd Congress)


Date: July 20, 1972

Subject: Minimum Wage

Description: Taft (R-OH) amendment in the nature of a substitute bill as amended - Raise the minimum wage for non-agricultural employees covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 prior to its amendment in 1966 to $1.80 an hour in 1972 and $2 an hour in 1973, from the existing level of $1.60; increase the hourly wage floor for workers covered by the 1966 and 1972 amendments to $1.70 in 1972, $1.80 in 1973 and $2 in 1974; raise the minimum wage for agricultural workers covered under the act to $1.50 in 1972 and $1.70 in 1973, from $1.30. This bill would reduce the amount and coverage of the minimum wage increase.

Result: Amendment Rejected, 46-47

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Voted in Favor:

Jim Allen (D-AL)  
Gordon Allott (R-CO)  
Glenn Beall, Jr. (R-MD)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
Wallace Bennett (R-UT)  
Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX)  
Bill Brock (R-TN)  
James Buckley (R-NY)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (I-VA)  
Lawton Chiles (D-FL)  
Marlow Cook (R-KY)  
John Sherman Cooper (R-KY)  
Norris Cotton (R-NH)  
Carl Curtis (R-NE)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Peter Dominick (R-CO)  
James Eastland (D-MS)  
Sam Ervin (D-NC)  
Paul Fannin (R-AZ)  
Hiram Fong (R-HI)  
David Gambrell (D-GA)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Robert Griffin (R-MI)  
Edward Gurney (R-FL)  
Clifford Hansen (R-WY)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
Ernest Hollings (D-SC)  
Roman Hruska (R-NE)  
Len Jordan (R-ID)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
John McClellan (D-AR)  
Jack Miller (R-IA)  
Frank Moss (D-UT)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
William Roth (R-DE)  
William Saxbe (R-OH)  
John Sparkman (D-AL)  
William Spong (D-VA)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Stuart Symington (D-MO)  
Robert Taft, Jr. (R-OH)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  

Voted Against:

George Aiken (R-VT)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Alan Bible (D-NV)  
Caleb Boggs (R-DE)  
Edward Brooke (R-MA)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Clifford Case (R-NJ)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Fred Harris (D-OK)  
Vance Hartke (D-IN)  
Philip Hart (D-MI)  
Harold Hughes (D-IA)  
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Mike Mansfield (D-MT)  
Gale McGee (D-WY)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
Thomas McIntyre (D-NH)  
Lee Metcalf (D-MT)  
Walter Mondale (D-MN)  
Joseph Montoya (D-NM)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
John Pastore (D-RI)  
James Pearson (R-KS)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
Hugh Scott (R-PA)  
Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)  
Robert Stafford (R-VT)  
Adlai Stevenson III (D-IL)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
John Tunney (D-CA)  
Lowell Weicker (R-CT)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  

Did Not Vote:

Clinton Anderson (D-NM)  
Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Allen Ellender (D-LA)  
William Fulbright (D-AR)  
Everett Jordan (D-NC)  
Karl Mundt (R-SD)  

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