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House Roll Call 1071, 105th Congress · September 18, 1998

(HOUSE REJECTED THE MARTINEZ AMENDMENT, IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE, THAT ESTABLISHES THE "CLASS-SIZE REDUCTION AND TEACHER QUALITY ACT" AND AUTHORIZES $20.8 BILLION, ALLOCATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO THE STATES, OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS TO REDUCE CLASS SIZE IN GRADES 1 THROUGH 3 TO AN AVERAGE OF 18 STUDENTS PER CLASS AND ALLOW SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO HIRE AN ADDITIONAL 100,000 TEACHERS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

190 yea · 215 nayFailed29 not voting or present
Democrat184 yea · 2 nay
Republican5 yea · 213 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3248 ↗

Dollars to the Classroom 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 “Expand federal role”

    model(0.95): Authorizing $20.8 billion for a federal teacher hiring program expands 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 (190)

Nay (215)

Not voting or present (29)

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