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Minimum Wage Increase: See Who Voted For and Against it

On Thursday, March 9, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill that would boost the $5.15 per hour minimum wage by $1 over the next two years. After passing the bill, Republican leaders used parliamentary procedures to combine it with another bill that would cut the estate tax.

Previously, the Senate voted for a three-year $1 increase in the minimum wage as part of a bill that would make it more difficult for people to avoid debt by filing bankruptcy. Differences between the House and Senate measures will have to be resolved before a bill is sent to President Clinton.

Here's how House representatives in each state voted on the bill to increase the minimum wage (A "Yea" vote indicates support for increasing the wage):

282 YEAS                   143 NAYS                     9 NV (did not vote)

Alabama

Sonny Callahan (R - 1)                            N

Terry Everett (R - 2                               Y

Bob Riley (R - 3)                                    Y

Robert B. Aderholt (R - 4)                        Y

Robert E. (Bud) Cramer, Jr. (D - 5)            Y

Spencer T. Bachus III (R - 6)                   N

Earl F. Hilliard (D - 7)                              Y

Alaska

Don Young (R - At Large)                        Y

Arizona:

Matt Salmon (R - 1)                                N

Ed Pastor (D - 2)                                    Y

Bob Stump (R - 3)                                   N

John Shadegg (R - 4)                              N

Jim Kolbe (R - 5)                                     N

J. D. Hayworth (R - 6)                              N

Arkansas

Marion Berry (D - 1)                                 Y

Vic Snyder (D - 2)                                   Y

Asa Hutchinson (R - 3)                             N

Jay Dickey (R - 4)                                   N

California

Mike Thompson (D - 1)                            Y

Wally Herger (R - 2)                                N

Douglas Ose (R - 3)                                N

John T. Doolittle (R - 4)                          N

Robert T. Matsui (D - 5)                          Y

Lynn Woolsey (D - 6)                              Y

George Miller (D - 7)                              Y

Nancy Pelosi (D - 8)                               Y

Barbara Lee (D - 9)                               Y

Ellen O. Tauscher (D - 10)                       Y

Richard W. Pombo (R - 11)                      N

Tom Lantos (D - 12)                               Y

Pete Stark (D - 13)                                Y

Anna G. Eshoo (D - 14)                          Y

Tom Campbell (R - 15)                            N

Zoe Lofgren (D - 16)                              Y

Sam Farr (D - 17)                                  Y

Gary A. Condit (D - 18)                           Y

George P. Radanovich (R - 19)                 N

Calvin M. Dooley (D - 20)                        Y

William M. Thomas (R - 21)                     N

Lois Capps (D - 22)                               Y

Elton Gallegly (R - 23)                            Y

Brad Sherman (D - 24)                           Y

Howard P. (Buck) McKeon (R - 25)           N

Howard L. Berman (D - 26)                      Y

James E. Rogan (R - 27)                         N

David Dreier (R - 28)                              N

Henry A. Waxman (D - 29)                      Y

Xavier Becerra (D - 30)                          Y

Matthew G. Martinez (D - 31)                  Y

Julian C. Dixon (D - 32)                          Y

Lucille Roybal-Allard (D - 33)                   Y

Grace Napolitano (D - 34)                       Y

Maxine Waters (D - 35)                          Y

Steven Kuykendall (R - 36)                      N

Juanita Millender-McDonald (D - 37)          Y

Stephen Horn (R - 38)                            Y

Edward R. Royce (R - 39)                         N

Jerry Lewis (R - 40)                                Y

Gary Miller (R - 41)                                 N

Joe Baca (D - 42)                                  Y

Ken Calvert (R - 43)                               N

Mary Bono (R - 44)                                Y

Dana Rohrabacher (R - 45)                      N

Loretta Sanchez (D - 46)                        Y

Christopher Cox (R - 47)                         N

Ron Packard (R - 48)                              N

Brian P. Bilbray (R - 49)                          Y

Bob Filner (D - 50)                                Y

Randy (Duke) Cunningham (R - 51)           N

Duncan Hunter (R - 52)                          Y

Colorado

Diana L. DeGette (D - 1)                         Y

Mark Udall (D - 2)                                  Y

Scott McInnis (R - 3)                             N

Bob Schaffer (R - 4)                              NV

Joel Hefley (R - 5)                                  N

Tom Tancredo (R - 6)                             N

Connecticut

John Larson (D - 1)                                 Y

Sam Gejdenson (D - 2)                            Y

Rosa L. DeLauro (D - 3)                           Y

Christopher Shays (R - 4)                        Y

James H. Maloney (D - 5)                         Y

Nancy L. Johnson (R - 6)                          Y

Delaware

Michael N. Castle (R - At Large)                 Y

Florida

Joe Scarborough (R - 1)                         NV

F. Allen Boyd, Jr. (D - 2)                           N

Corrine Brown (D - 3)                               Y

Tillie K. Fowler (R - 4)                               N

Karen L. Thurman (D - 5)                           Y

Clifford B. Stearns (R - 6)                          N

John L. Mica (R - 7)                                  N

Bill McCollum (R - 8)                                 NV

Michael Bilirakis (R - 9)                               Y

C. W. Bill Young (R - 10)                            Y

James O. Davis (D - 11)                             Y

Charles T. Canady (R - 12)                         Y

Dan Miller (R - 13)                                     N

Porter J. Goss (R - 14)                               N

Dave Weldon (R - 15)                                N

Mark Foley (R - 16)                                   Y

Carrie P. Meek (D - 17)                              Y

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R - 18)                       Y

Robert Wexler (D - 19)                              Y

Peter Deutsch (D - 20)                              Y

Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R - 21)                         Y

E. Clay Shaw (R - 22)                                Y

Alcee L. Hastings (D - 23)                           Y

Georgia

Jack Kingston (R - 1)                                  N

Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D - 2)                       Y

Michael A. (Mac) Collins (R - 3)                    N

Cynthia A. McKinney (D - 4)                        Y

John Lewis (D - 5)                                     Y

Johnny Isakson (R - 6)                               N

Bob Barr (R - 7)                                        N

Saxby Chambliss (R - 8)                             N

Nathan Deal (R - 9)                                   N

Charlie Norwood (R - 10)                            N

John Linder (R - 11)                                   N

Hawaii

Neil Abercrombie (D - 1)                              Y

Patsy T. Mink (D - 2)                                  Y

Idaho

Helen Chenoweth-Hage (R - 1)                     N

Mike Simpson (R - 2)                                  N

Illinois

Bobby L. Rush (D - 1)                                Y

Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D - 2)                        Y

William O. Lipinski (D - 3)                            Y

Luis V. Gutierrez (D - 4)                              Y

Rod R. Blagojevich (D - 5)                           Y

Henry J. Hyde (R - 6)                                 Y

Danny K. Davis (D - 7)                                Y

Philip M. Crane (R - 8)                                N

Janice Schakowsky (D - 9)                          Y

John Edward Porter (R - 10)                        N

Gerald C. Weller (R - 11)                             Y

Jerry F. Costello (D - 12)                            Y

Judy Biggert (R - 13)                                 N

J. Dennis Hastert (R - 14), Speaker, normally does not vote

Thomas W. Ewing (R - 15)                          N

Donald A. Manzullo (R - 16)                         N

Lane Evans (D - 17)                                  Y

Ray LaHood (R - 18)                                  Y

David Phelps (D - 19)                                 Y

John M. Shimkus (R - 20)                            Y

Indiana

Peter J. Visclosky (D - 1)                            Y

David M. McIntosh (R - 2)                           N

Tim Roemer (D - 3)                                    Y

Mark E. Souder (R - 4)                               N

Stephen E. Buyer (R - 5)                            Y

Dan Button (R - 6)                                    N

Edward A. Pease (R - 7)                             Y

John N. Hostettler (R - 8)                           N

Baron Hill (D - 9)                                       Y

Julia M. Carson (D - 10)                              Y

Iowa

James A. Leach (R - 1)                              Y

Jim Nussle (R - 2)                                     Y

Leonard L. Boswell (D - 3)                          Y

Greg Ganske (R - 4)                                  Y

Tom Latham (R - 5)                                  N

Kansas

Jerry Moran (R - 1)                                  N

Jim Ryun (R - 2)                                      N

Dennis Moore (D - 3)                                Y

Todd Tiahrt (R - 4)                                  N

Kentucky

Edward Whitfield (R - 1)                           N

Ron Lewis (R - 2)                                    N

Anne Meagher Northup (R - 3)                   N

Ken Lucas (D - 4)                                   N

Harold Rogers (R - 5)                               Y

Ernie Fletcher (R - 6)                               Y

Louisiana

David Vitter (R - 1)                                 N

William J. Jefferson (D - 2)                        Y

W. J. (Billy) Tauzin (R - 3)                         N

Jim McCrery (R - 4)                                  N

John C. Cooksey (R - 5)                           NV

Richard H. Baker (R - 6)                            N

Christopher C. John (D - 7)                        Y

Maine

Thomas H. Allen (D - 1)                             Y

John E. Baldacci (D - 2)                             Y

Maryland

Wayne T. Gilchrest (R - 1)                         Y

Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. (R - 2)                       N

Benjamin L. Cardin (D - 3)                          Y

Albert R. Wynn (D - 4)                              Y

Steny H. Hoyer (D - 5)                              Y

Roscoe G. Bartlett (R - 6)                          N

Elijah E. Cummings (D - 7)                          Y

Constance A. Morella (R - 8)                      Y

Massachusetts

John W. Olver (D - 1)                                Y

Richard E. Neal (D - 2)                               Y

James P. McGovern (D - 3)                         Y

Barney Frank (D - 4)                                 Y

Martin T. Meehan (D - 5)                          Y

John F. Tierney (D - 6)                              Y

Edward J. Markey (D - 7)                            Y

Mike Capuano (D - 8)                                 Y

John Joseph Moakley (D - 9)                       Y

William D. Delahunt (D - 10)                        Y

Michigan

Bart Stupak (D - 1)                                   Y         

Peter Hoekstra (R - 2)                              N

Vernon J. Ehlers (R - 3)                             Y

Dave Camp (R - 4)                                    Y

James A. Barcia (D - 5)                              Y

Fred Upton (R - 6)                                    Y

Nick Smith (R - 7)                                     N

Deborah Stabenow (D - 8)                         Y

Dale E. Kildee (D - 9)                                Y

David E. Bonior (D - 10)                             Y

Joe Knollenberg (R - 11)                             N

Sander M. Levin (D - 12)                            Y

Lynn N. Rivers (D - 13)                               Y

John Conyers, Jr. (D - 14)                           Y

Carolyn C. Kilpatrick (D - 15)                       Y

John D. Dingell (D - 16)                              Y

Minnesota

Gil Gutknecht (R - 1)                                  N

David Minge (D - 2)                                   Y

Jim Ramstad (R - 3)                                  N

Bruce F. Vento (D - 4)                              NV

Martin Olav Sabo (D - 5)                             Y

Bill Luther (D - 6)                                       Y

Collin C. Peterson (D - 7)                             Y

James L. Oberstar (D - 8)                            Y

Mississippi

Roger F. Wicker (R - 1)                               Y

Bennie G. Thompson (D - 2)                         Y

Charles W. Pickering, Jr. (R - 3)                    N

Ronnie Shows (D - 4)                                 Y

Gene Taylor (D - 5)                                    Y

Missouri

William L. Clay (D - 1)                                 Y

James M. Talent (R - 2)                              N

Richard A. Gephardt (D - 3)                         Y

Ike Skelton (D - 4)                                     Y

Karen McCarthy (D - 5)                               Y

Pat Danner (D - 6)                                     Y

Roy D. Blunt (R - 7)                                    N

Jo Ann Emerson (R - 8)                                Y

Kenny Hulshof (R - 9)                                  N

Montana

Rick Hill (R - At Large)                                 N

Nebraska

Doug Bereuter (R - 1)                                  Y

Lee Terry (R - 2)                                        N

Bill Barrett (R - 3)                                       N

Nevada

Shelly Berkley (D - 1)                                  Y

Jim Gibbons (R - 2)                                     Y

New Hampshire

John E. Sununu (R - 1)                               N

Charles F. Bass (R - 2)                               N

New Jersey

Robert E. Andrews (D - 1)                           Y

Frank A. LoBiondo (R - 2)                           Y

Jim Saxton (R - 3)                                     Y

Christopher H. Smith (R - 4)                        Y

Marge Roukema (R - 5)                               Y

Frank Pallone, Jr. (D - 6)                             Y

Bob Franks (R - 7)                                     Y

William J. Pascrell, Jr. (D - 8)                       Y

Steven R. Rothman (D - 9)                          Y

Donald M. Payne (D - 10)                            Y

Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (R - 11)                  Y

Rush Holt (D - 12)                                      Y

Robert Menendez (D - 13)                           Y

New Mexico

Heather Wilson (R - 1)                                Y

Joe Skeen (R - 2)                                       N

Thomas Udall (D - 3)                                   Y

New York

Michael P. Forbes (D - 1)                             Y

Rick A. Lazio (R - 2)                                    Y

Peter T. King (R - 3)                                   Y

Carolyn McCarthy (D - 4)                             Y

Gary L. Ackerman (D - 5)                             Y

Gregory W. Meeks (D - 6)                            Y

Jospeh Crowley (D - 7)                                Y

Jerrold Nadler (D - 8)                                   Y

Anthony Weiner (D - 9)                                Y

Edolphus Towns (D - 10)                              Y

Major R. Owens (D - 11)                               Y

Nydia M. Velazquez (D - 12)                          Y

Vito Fossella (R - 13)                                   N

Carolyn B. Maloney (D - 14)                           Y

Charles B. Rangel (D - 15)                              Y

Jose' E. Serrano (D - 16)                               Y

Eliot L. Engel (D - 17)                                   Y

Nita M. Lowey (D - 18)                                  Y

Sue W. Kelly (R - 19)                                    Y

Benjamin A. Gilman (R - 20)                            Y

Michael R. McNulty (D - 21)                           Y

John Sweeney (R - 22)                                 N

Sherwood L. Boehlert (R - 23)                         Y

John M. McHugh (R - 24)                               Y

James T. Walsh (R - 25)                                Y

Maurice D. Hinchey (D - 26)                            Y

Tom Reynolds (R - 27)                                   N

Louise M. Slaughter (D - 28)                          Y

John J. LaFalce (D - 29)                                 Y

Jack Quinn (R - 30)                                       Y

Amo Houghton (R - 31)                                  Y

North Carolina

Eva M. Clayton (D - 1)                                   Y

Bobby R. Etheridge (D - 2)                              Y

Walter B. Jones (R - 3)                                  N

David E. Price (D - 4)                                     Y

Richard M. Burr (R - 5)                                   N

Howard Coble (R - 6)                                    N

Mike McIntyre (D - 7)                                    Y

Robin Hayes (R - 8)                                       Y

Sue Myrick (R - 9)                                         Y

Cass Ballenger (R - 10)                                  N

Charles H. Taylor (R - 11)                               N

Melvin L. Watt (D - 12)                                  Y

North Dakota

Earl Pomeroy (D - At Large)                            Y

Ohio

Steve J. Chabot (R - 1)                                 N

Rob Portman (R - 2)                                      N

Tony P. Hall (D - 3)                                       Y

Michael G. Oxley (R - 4)                                 N

Paul E. Gillmor (R - 5)                                     Y

Ted Strickland (D - 6)                                    Y

David L. Hobson (R - 7)                                  Y

John A. Boehner (R - 8)                                 N

Marcy Kaptur (D - 9)                                     Y

Dennis J. Kucinich (D - 10)                              Y

Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D - 11)                      Y

John R. Kasich (R - 12)                                 N

Sherrod Brown (D - 13)                                  Y

Thomas C. Sawyer (D - 14)                            Y

Deborah Pryce (R - 15)                                  N

Ralph Regula (R - 16)                                    Y

James A. Traficant, Jr. (D - 17)                       Y

Robert W. Ney (R - 18)                                  Y

Steven C. LaTourette (R - 19)                         Y

Oklahoma

Steve Largent (R - 1)                                    N

Tom A. Coburn (R - 2)                                   N

Wes W. Watkins (R - 3)                                 N

J. C. Watts, Jr. (R - 4)                                   N

Ernest J. Istook, Jr. (R - 5)                             N

Frank D. Lucas (R - 6)                                   N

Oregon

David Wu (D - 1)                                          Y

Greg Walden (R - 2)                                      N

Earl Blumenauer (D - 3)                                  Y

Peter A. DeFazio (D - 4)                                 Y

Darlene Hooley (D - 5)                                   Y

Pennsylvania

Robert Brady (D - 1)                                      Y

Chaka Fattah (D - 2)                                     Y

Robert A. Borski (D - 3)                                  Y

Ron Klink (D - 4)                                           Y

John E. Peterson (R - 5)                                 N

Tim Holden (D - 6)                                         Y

Curt Weldon (R - 7)                                       Y

James C. Greenwood (R - 8)                            Y

Bud Shuster (R - 9)                                       Y

Donald Sherwood (R - 10)                               Y

Paul E. Kanjorski (D - 11)                                Y

John P. Murtha (D - 12)                                  Y

Joseph Hoeffel (D - 13)                                   Y

William J. Coyne (D - 14)                                 Y

Patrick Toomey (R - 15)                                  N

Joseph R. Pitts (R - 16)                                   N

George W. Gekas (R - 17)                                Y

Michael F. Doyle (D - 18)                                 Y

William F. Goodling (R - 19)                              Y

Frank R. Mascara (D - 20)                                Y

Phil English (R - 21)                                        Y

Rhode Island

Patrick J. Kennedy (D - 1)                                Y

Robert A. Weygand (D - 2)                               Y

South Carolina

Marshall (Mark) Sanford (R - 1)                         N

Floyd D. Spence (R - 2)                                   NV

Lindsey O. Graham (R - 3)                                N

James DeMint (R - 4)                                      N

John M. Spratt, Jr. (D - 5)                                Y

James E. Clyburn (D - 6)                                 Y

South Dakota

John R. Thune (R - At Large)                            Y

Tennessee

William L. Jenkins (R - 1)                                   N

John J. Duncan, Jr. (R - 2)                                 Y

Zach Wamp (R - 3)                                          N

Van Hilleary (R - 4)                                          Y

Bob Clement (D - 5)                                         Y

Bart Gordon (D - 6)                                          Y

Ed Bryant (R - 7)                                             N

John S. Tanner (D - 8)                                     Y

Harold E. Ford, Jr. (D - 9)                                 Y

Texas

Max Sandlin (D - 1)                                        Y

Jim Turner (D - 2)                                          Y

Sam Johnson (R - 3)                                       N

Ralph M. Hall (D - 4)                                       N

Pete Sessions (R - 5)                                      N

Joe Barton (R - 6)                                          N

Bill Archer (R - 7)                                           N

Kevin Brady (R - 8)                                         N

Nick Lampson (D - 9)                                               Y

Lloyd Doggett (D - 10)                                    Y

Chet Edwards (D - 11)                                    Y

Kay Granger (R - 12)                                      NV

William M. (Mac) Thornberry (R - 13)                  N

Ron Paul (R - 14)                                            N

Ruben E. Hinojosa (D - 15)                               Y

Silvestre Reyes (D - 16)                                   Y

Charles W. Stenholm (D - 17)                            N

Sheila Jackson Lee (D - 18)                              Y

Larry Combest (R - 19)                                    N

Charlie Gonzalez (D - 20)                                  Y

Lamar Smith (R - 21)                                       N

Tom DeLay (R - 22)                                        N

Henry Bonilla (R - 23)                                       N

Martin Frost (D - 24)                                       Y

Ken Bentsen (D - 25)                                       Y

Richard K. Armey (R - 26)                                 N

Solomon P. Ortiz (D - 27)                                 Y

Ciro D. Rodriguez (D - 28)                                 Y

Gene Green (D - 29)                                        Y

Eddie Bernice Johnson (D - 30)                         NV

Utah

James V. Hansen (R - 1)                                   N

Merrill Cook (R - 2)                                          N

Christopher B. Cannon (R - 3)                           N

Vermont

Bernard Sanders (I - At Large)                          Y

Virginia

Herbert H. Bateman (R - 1)                                N

Owen B. Pickett (D - 2)                                     N                     

Robert C. Scott (D - 3)                                    Y

Norman Sisisky (D - 4)                                      Y

Virgil H. Goode, Jr. (I - 5)                                  N

Bob Goodlatte (R - 6)                                       N

Tom Bliley (R - 7)                                            N

James P. Moran (D - 8)                                     Y

Rick Boucher (D - 9)                                        Y

Frank R. Wolf (R - 10)                                      Y

Thomas M. Davis III (R - 11)                             N

Washington

Jay Inslee (D - 1)                                           Y

Jack Metcalf (R - 2)                                        Y

Brian Baird (D - 3)                                           Y

Doc Hastings (R - 4)                                      N

George Nethercutt (R - 5)                                N

Norm Dicks (D - 6)                                          Y

Jim McDermott (D - 7)                                     Y

Jennifer B. Dunn (R - 8)                                   N

Adam Smith (D - 9)                                        NV

West Virginia

Alan B. Mollohan (D - 1)                                  Y

Bob Wise (D - 2)                                            Y

Nick J. Rahall II (D - 3)                                   Y

Wisconsin

Paul Ryan (R - 1)                                            Y

Tammy Baldwin (D - 2)                                    Y

Ron Kind (D - 3)                                             Y

Jerry Kleczka (D - 4)                                       Y

Thomas M. Barrett (D - 5)                                       Y

Thomas E. Petri (R - 6)                                   Y

David R. Obey (D - 7)                                     Y

Mark Green (R - 8)                                         Y

F. James Sensenbrenner (R - 9)                        N

Wyoming

Barbara Cubin (R - At Large)                            N


 
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