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House Roll Call 1138, 105th Congress · October 10, 1998

Charter Schools — H.R.2616 BY RIGGS (R-CA) -- CHARTER SCHOOL EXPANSION ACT OF 1998 (PUB. L. 105-278, APPROVED 10/22/98) (HOUSE AGREED TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASSED THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2616, TO AMEND TITLES VI AND X OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 TO IMPROVE AND EXPAND CHARTER SCHOOLS.)

Question before the chamber: Suspend the Rules and Agree to the Senate Amendment

369 yea · 50 nayPassed15 not voting or present
Democrat159 yea · 39 nay
Republican209 yea · 11 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2616 ↗

Charter School Expansion Act of 1998

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(0.85): Amends federal education law to expand the federal role in supporting charter schools.

    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 (369)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (15)

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