Senate Roll Call 541, 102nd Congress · October 2, 1992
An act to promote the achievement of National Education Goals, to measure progress toward such goals, to develop national education standards and voluntary assessments in accordance with such standards and to encourage the comprehensive improvement of America's neighborhood public schools to improve student achievement. — S.2 BY KENNEDY, EDWARD (D-MA) -- NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS IMPROVEMENT ACT PARENTS AS TEACHERS: THE FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION ACT OF 1992 CIVIC AND CHARACTER VALUES-IN-SCHOOLS ACT OF 1992 (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE FAILED TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON S.2, TO PROMOTE THE ACHIEVEMENT OF NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL GOALS, TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL COUNCIL ON EDUCATIONAL GOALS AND AN ACADEMIC REPORT CARD TO MEASURE PROGRESS ON THE GOALS, AND TO PROMOTE LITERACY IN THE UNITED STATES.)
Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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.
- EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”
model(0.90): Advancing a bill establishing national educational goals expands the federal role in education.
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 (59)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Jocelyn Birch Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Paul David Wellstone
- Timothy E. Wirth
- Harris Wofford
Nay (40)
- Christopher S. Bond
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- James M. Jeffords
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- John Seymour
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (1)
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
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