Harold Washington on Education

DemocratIL

Education1 vote

Expand federal roleReduce federal role

7 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Education. 1 of them counted toward the score above: 0 toward “Expand federal role” and 1 toward “Reduce federal role”.

The other 6 did not count: 1 was a roll call whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 5 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
1983-03-02	TO PASS H.R. 1310. (MOTION PASSED)H.R. 1310 · 98th Congress	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay
1983-03-02	TO AMEND H.R. 1310 BY REPLACING THE NATIONAL TEACHING SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM WITH A ONE-YEAR SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM WHICH WOULD RETRAIN EXISTING TEACHERS TO BE MATH OR SCIENCE TEACHERS. (MOTION FAILED)H.R. 1310 · 98th Congress	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay
1983-03-02	TO AMEND H.R. 1310 BY REPLACING THE NATIONAL TEACHING SCHOLARSHIPS WITH $50 MILLION IN BLOCK GRANTS TO STATES. (MOTION FAILED)H.R. 1310 · 98th Congress	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay
1983-03-02	TO ADOPT H. RES. 109, THE RULE FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1310, A BILL AUTHORIZING FUNDS TO: IMPROVE ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, AND POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE; ESTABLISH A NATIONAL POLICY FOR ENGINEERING, TECHNICAL, AND SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL; AND PROVIDE FOR COST-SHARING BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN TRAINING SUCH PERSONNEL. (MOTION PASSED)H.R. 1310 · 98th Congress	Did not vote	Direction not readable
1982-12-13	TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H. J. RES. 429, A BILL ESTABLISHING A STATE COMMISSION ON TEACHER EXCELLENCE. (MOTION FAILED;2/3 REQUIRED)H.J.Res. 429 · 97th Congress	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay
1982-09-22	TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 7048, A BILL REQUIRING A SEPARATE FAMILY CONTRIBUTION SCHEDULE FOR PELL GRANTS FOR ACADEMIC YEARS 1983-1984 AND 1984-1985. H.R. 7048 ALSO ESTABLISHES RESTRICTIONS UPON THE CONTENTS OF SUCH SCHEDULE. (MOTION PASSED;2/3 REQUIRED)H.R. 7048 · 97th Congress	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay
1982-08-10	TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND AGREE TO H. CON. RES. 388, A MEASURE DISAPPROVING CERTAIN REGULATIONS SUBMITTED TO THE CONGRESS ON JULY 29, 1982, BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WHICH AFFECT THE TITLE 1 PROGRAM OF AID TO DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND AID TO ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION THROUGH BLOCK GRANTS. (MOTION PASSED;2/3 REQUIRED)H.Con.Res. 388 · 97th Congress	Yea	Reduce 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.