Senate Roll Call 419, 103rd Congress · February 4, 1994
To express the sense of the Senate that local educational agencies should encourage a brief period of daily silence for students for the purpose of contemplating their aspirations. — S.1150 BY KENNEDY, EDWARD (D-MA) -- GOALS 2000: EDUCATE AMERICA ACT NATIONAL SKILL STANDARDS ACT OF 1993 EDUCATION FLEXIBILITY PARTNERSHIP DEMONSTRATION ACT SAFE SCHOOLS ACT OF 1993 MIDNIGHT BASKETBALL LEAGUE TRAINING AND PARTNERSHIP ACT STATE LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE SAFE SCHOOLS ACT GUN-FREE SCHOOLS ACT OF 1993 PREVENTING OUR KIDS FROM INHALING DEADLY SMOKE (PRO-KIDS) ACT OF 1993 EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1993 ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EQUIPMENT ACT MINORITY-FOCUSED CIVICS EDUCATION ACT OF 1993 (SENATE AGREED TO THE DANFORTH/KASSEBAUM AMENDMENT NO. 1383, TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES SHOULD ENCOURAGE A BRIEF PERIOD OF DAILY SILENCE FOR STUDENTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTEMPLATING THEIR ASPIRATIONS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Goals 2000: Educate America 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) Expressing a non-binding sense of the Senate does not alter federal educational policy.
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 (78)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Harlan Mathews
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
Nay (8)
Not voting or present (14)
- Christopher S. BondDid not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Jesse HelmsDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Barbara A. MikulskiDid not vote
- Don NicklesDid not vote
- Robert SmithDid not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- Harris WoffordDid not vote
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