House Roll Call 1043, 105th Congress · September 10, 1998

(HOUSE AGREED TO THE RIGGS AMENDMENT THAT PERMITS STATES TO APPROVE GRANTS TO LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS ONLY IF THE DISTRICT IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH STATE LAW REGARDING THE EDUCATION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

230 yea · 184 nayAgreed to20 not voting or present

Democrat14 yea · 177 nay

Republican216 yea · 6 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3892 ↗

English Language Fluency 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 “Reduce federal role”
model(0.85): Restricts grant conditions to state law, reducing federal intervention.
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 (230)

Nay (184)

Not voting or present (20)

James A. BarciaDid not vote
Robert Marion BerryDid not vote
Richard BurrDid not vote
Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.Did not vote
Bob R. EtheridgeDid not vote
Elizabeth FurseDid not vote
Richard Andrew GephardtDid not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezDid not vote
Eddie Bernice JohnsonDid not vote
Barbara Bailey KennellyDid not vote
Steve LargentDid not vote
James P. McGovernDid not vote
Glenn PoshardDid not vote
Deborah D. PryceDid not vote
Joe ScarboroughDid not vote
Charles E. SchumerDid not vote
William J. TauzinDid not vote
Edolphus TownsDid not vote
Robert E. Wise Jr.Did not vote
Don YoungDid not vote

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