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House Roll Call 668, 103rd Congress · March 21, 1994

(HOUSE REJECTED THE WILLIAMS AMENDMENT TO THE JOHNSON OF TEXAS AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO PROHIBIT FUNDING OF STATE SCHOOL SYSTEMS THAT ADOPT POLICIES DENYING PRAYER IN SCHOOL.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

169 yea · 239 nayFailed28 not voting or present
Democrat161 yea · 73 nay
Republican9 yea · 166 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6 ↗

Improving America's Schools Act of 1994

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 imposes federal conditions on state school funding, expanding the 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 (171)

Nay (239)

Not voting or present (28)

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