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Vote Data for HR3744 (95th Congress)


Date: October 7, 1977

Subject: Minimum Wage

Description: Passage of the bill to raise the minimum wage from $2.30 an hour to $2.65 on Jan. 1, 1978, to $2.85 on Jan. 1, 1979, to $3.05 on Jan. 1, 1980, and make other changes in minimum wage and overtime coverage. Increases in the minimum wage force employers to increase prices or to lay off employees, particularly the young and minorities.

Result: Bill Passed, 63-24

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Voted in Favor:

Wendell Anderson (D-MN)  
Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX)  
Joe Biden (D-DE)  
Edward Brooke (R-MA)  
Dale Bumpers (D-AR)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Clifford Case (R-NJ)  
John Chafee (R-RI)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Dick Clark (D-IA)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
John Culver (D-IA)  
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Pete Domenici (R-NM)  
John Durkin (D-NH)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
James Eastland (D-MS)  
Wendell Ford (D-KY)  
John Glenn (D-OH)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Gary Hart (D-CO)  
Floyd Haskell (D-CO)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
William Hathaway (D-ME)  
John Heinz (R-PA)  
Ernest Hollings (D-SC)  
Walter Huddleston (D-KY)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Bennett Johnston (D-LA)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
Spark Matsunaga (D-HI)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
Thomas McIntyre (D-NH)  
John Melcher (D-MT)  
Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH)  
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Donald Riegle (D-MI)  
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)  
Jim Sasser (D-TN)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
John Sparkman (D-AL)  
Robert Stafford (R-VT)  
Adlai Stevenson III (D-IL)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
Lowell Weicker (R-CT)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  

Voted Against:

Jim Allen (D-AL)  
Dewey Bartlett (R-OK)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (I-VA)  
Lawton Chiles (D-FL)  
John Danforth (R-MO)  
Jake Garn (R-UT)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Robert Griffin (R-MI)  
Clifford Hansen (R-WY)  
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)  
Sam Hayakawa (R-CA)  
Jesse Helms (R-NC)  
Paul Laxalt (R-NV)  
Richard Lugar (R-IN)  
Robert Morgan (D-NC)  
William Roth (R-DE)  
Jack Schmitt (R-NM)  
William Lloyd Scott (R-VA)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Richard Stone (D-FL)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
Malcolm Wallop (R-WY)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  
Edward Zorinsky (D-NE)  

Did Not Vote:

James Abourezk (D-SD)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
Carl Curtis (R-NE)  
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
John McClellan (D-AR)  
James McClure (R-ID)  
Lee Metcalf (D-MT)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Sam Nunn (D-GA)  
James Pearson (R-KS)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  

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