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Senate Roll Call 644, 103rd Congress · August 2, 1994

To require that certain applicants for financial assistance for bilingual education employ personnel proficient in English. — (SENATE AGREED TO PRESSLER AMENDMENT NO. 2439, TO REQUIRE THAT CERTAIN APPLICATIONS FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION EMPLOY PERSONNEL PROFICIENT IN ENGLISH.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

100 yea · 0 nayAmendment Agreed to
Democrat54 yea · 0 nay
Republican44 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1513

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(0.80): Adding federal English-proficiency requirements on bilingual grant recipients expands federal regulatory 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 (100)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (0)

None

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