Lawrence Patton McDonald on Education

DemocratGA

Education88 votes · 71.5/100 consistent

Expand federal roleReduce federal role

107 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Education. 88 of them counted toward the score above: 19 toward “Expand federal role” and 69 toward “Reduce federal role”.

The other 19 did not count: 17 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 2 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
1975-09-09	TO OVERRIDE VETO OF H.R. 5901, MAKING APPROPRIATION THROUGH SEPT. 30, 1976 FOR THE EDUCATION DIVISION.H.R. 5901 · 94th Congress	Nay	Reduce federal role
1975-07-18	TO RECEDE AND CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 44 TO H.R. 5901, A BILL MAKING EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS. (SEE V. 303)H.R. 5901 · 94th Congress	Nay	Reduce federal role
1975-07-16	TO INSIST ON DISAGREEMENT TO SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 44 TO H.R. 5901, A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE EDUCATION DIVISION AND RELATED AGENCIES. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 44 DELETED THE SO-CALLED CASEY AMENDMENT, WHICH PROVIDES THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF HEW CANNOT COMPEL THE INTEGRATION (BY SEX) OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES BY WITHOLDING FUNDS.H.R. 5901 · 94th Congress	Yea	Reduce federal role
1975-07-16	TO AGREE TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 5901, MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE EDUCATION DIVISION AND RELATED AGENCIES.H.R. 5901 · 94th Congress	Nay	Reduce federal role
1975-04-16	TO AMEND H.R. 5901 BY PROHIBITING HEW FROM ISSUING REGULATIONS TO REQUIRE INTEGRATION BY SEX IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES.H.R. 5901 · 94th Congress	Yea	Reduce federal role
1975-04-16	TO AMEND H.R. 5901 BY INCREASING EDUCATIONAL SERVICE FUNDS BY ABOUT $137 MILLION.H.R. 5901 · 94th Congress	Nay	Reduce federal role
1975-04-16	TO AMEND AN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 5901,MAKING, FISCAL 1976 EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS. THE ORIGINAL AMENDMENT INCREASES EDUCATIONAL SERVICE FUNDS BY $500 MILLION. WHILE THE QUIE AMENDMENT LIMITS THE INCREASE TO $137 MILLION.H.R. 5901 · 94th Congress	Nay	Expand federal role

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Expand federal role / Reduce federal role axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.