Roll Call Vote #278 · 105th Congress · Session 2 · Sep 22, 1998, 2:26 PM (ET)
On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 3540 to S.Amdt. 3559 to S. 1301 (Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1997)
Amendment S.Amdt. 3540 (To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage.)
Motion to Table Agreed to (55-44)
55 Yea
44 Nay
How the Parties Voted
Republican 50 senators
49 Yea / 1 Nay
Majority position: Yea
Democrat 41 senators
2 Yea / 38 Nay
1 not voting or present
Majority position: Nay
Independent 1 senator
1 Yea / 0 Nay
Majority position: Yea
Independent Democrat 1 senator
0 Yea / 1 Nay
Majority position: Nay
Crossed Party Lines
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Alfonse D'Amato (Republican–NY) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Bob Graham (Democrat–FL) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Fritz Hollings (Democrat–SC) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
James Jeffords (Independent–VT) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay
Full Roll Call: How Every Senator Voted
Yea 55
- Spencer Abraham (MI)
- A. Allard (CO)
- John Ashcroft (MO)
- Bob Bennett (UT)
- Kit Bond (MO)
- Sam Brownback (KS)
- Conrad Burns (MT)
- Ben Campbell (CO)
- John Chafee (RI)
- Daniel Coats (IN)
- William Cochran (MS)
- Susan Collins
- Paul Coverdell (GA)
- Larry Craig (ID)
- Michael DeWine (OH)
- Pete Domenici (NM)
- Michael Enzi (WY)
- Lauch Faircloth (NC)
- William Frist (TN)
- Slade Gorton, III (WA)
- Bob Graham (FL)
- Phil Gramm (TX)
- Rod Grams (MN)
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd Gregg (NH)
- Chuck Hagel (NE)
- Orrin Hatch (UT)
- Jesse Helms (NC)
- Fritz Hollings (SC)
- Timothy Hutchinson (AR)
- Kay Hutchison (TX)
- James Inhofe (OK)
- James Jeffords (VT)
- Dirk Kempthorne (ID)
- Jon Kyl (AZ)
- Chester Lott (MS)
- Richard Lugar (IN)
- Connie Mack, III (FL)
- John McCain, III (AZ)
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank Murkowski (AK)
- Donald Nickles (OK)
- Pat Roberts (KS)
- William Roth, Jr. (DE)
- Rick Santorum (PA)
- Jeff Sessions, III (AL)
- Richard Shelby (AL)
- Gordon Smith (OR)
- Robert Smith (NH)
- Olympia Snowe (ME)
- Ted Stevens (AK)
- Craig Thomas (WY)
- Fred Thompson (TN)
- James Thurmond (SC)
- John Warner (VA)
Nay 44
- Daniel Akaka (HI)
- Max Baucus (MT)
- Joe Biden, Jr. (DE)
- Jeff Bingaman, Jr. (NM)
- Barbara Boxer (CA)
- John Breaux (LA)
- Richard Bryan (NV)
- Dale Bumpers (AR)
- Robert Byrd (WV)
- Max Cleland (GA)
- Kent Conrad (ND)
- Alfonse D'Amato (NY)
- Thomas Daschle (SD)
- Christopher Dodd (CT)
- Byron Dorgan (ND)
- Dick Durbin
- Russell Feingold (WI)
- Dianne Feinstein (CA)
- Wendell Ford (KY)
- Tom Harkin (IA)
- Daniel Inouye (HI)
- Tim Johnson (SD)
- Ted Kennedy (MA)
- J. Kerrey (NE)
- John Kerry (MA)
- Herbert Kohl (WI)
- Mary Landrieu (LA)
- Frank Lautenberg (NJ)
- Patrick Leahy (VT)
- Carl Levin (MI)
- Joseph Lieberman (CT)
- Barbara Mikulski (MD)
- Carol Moseley Braun (IL)
- Daniel Moynihan (NY)
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid (NV)
- Charles Robb (VA)
- Jay Rockefeller, IV (WV)
- Paul Sarbanes (MD)
- Arlen Specter (PA)
- Robert Torricelli (NJ)
- Paul Wellstone (MN)
- Ron Wyden
Not Voting 1
- John Glenn, Jr. (OH)
Source: Official U.S. Senate roll call vote data (senate.gov ↗).