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Senate Roll Call 284, 102nd Congress · January 23, 1992

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Supreme Court should reverse earlier decisions restricting voluntary prayer in public school. — (SENATE REJECTED HELMS AMENDMENT NO. 1478 (TO AMENDMENT NO. 1477), TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE SUPREME COURT'S EARLIER HOLDINGS IN RESTRICTING VOLUNTARY PRAYER IN PUBLIC SCHOOL CASES.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

38 yea · 55 nayAmendment Rejected7 not voting or present
Democrat11 yea · 42 nay
Republican27 yea · 11 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2 ↗

Neighborhood Schools Improvement Act

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 (0.95) This is a non-binding sense-of-the-Senate amendment regarding school prayer rulings.

    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 (38)

Nay (55)

Not voting or present (7)

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