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House Roll Call 599, 100th Congress · May 10, 1988

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS HR 3424, OVERSEAS TEACHERS ACT, TO INSTITUTE HIRING PREFERENCES FOR TEACHERS IN OVERSEAS ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS RUN BY THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT. MOTION FAILED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT NOT VOTING IN FAVOR.

157 yea · 262 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat144 yea · 93 nay
Republican12 yea · 168 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3424 ↗

Overseas Teachers Act of 1988

Policy area: Education — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.85): A yes vote establishes federal hiring standards and preferences for overseas DOD teachers.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Education

    Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (158)

Nay (262)

Not voting or present (11)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.