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House Roll Call 43, 101st Congress · May 9, 1989

TO AMEND HR 7, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION REAUTHORIZATION, TO PROHIBIT USE OF FUNDS AVAILABLE BY THIS ACT TO ANY EDUCATIONAL AGENCY EFFECTIVELY PREVENTING INDIVIDUALS FROM PARTICIPATING IN PRAYER ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS.

269 yea · 135 nay30 not voting or present
Democrat109 yea · 120 nay
Republican159 yea · 14 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 7

Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act Amendments of 1990

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.

  • EducationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.60) Conditioning education funds on voluntary prayer practices is a social policy rider with an ambiguous federal role.

    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 (269)

Nay (135)

Not voting or present (30)

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