Senate Roll Call 479, 103rd Congress · March 26, 1994
A bill to improve learning and teaching by providing a national framework for education reform; to promote the research, consensus building, and systemic changes needed to ensure equitable educational opportunities and high levels of educational achievement for all American students; to provide a framework for reauthorization of all Federal education programs; to promote the development and adoption of a voluntary national system of skill standards and certifications, and for other purposes. — (SENATE AGREED TO A MOTION TO INSTRUCT THE SERGEANT AT ARMS TO REQUEST THE ATTENDANCE OF ABSENT SENATORS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion for Attendance
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) A motion requesting attendance of absent senators is purely procedural.
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 (75)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- 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
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Harlan Mathews
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- 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
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Nay (9)
Not voting or present (16)
- Robert F. BennettDid not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Duncan McLauchlin FairclothDid not vote
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- Judd A. GreggDid not vote
- Jesse HelmsDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Joseph I. LiebermanDid not vote
- Trent LottDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- Robert SmithDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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