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House Roll Call 284, 105th Congress · July 22, 1997

H.R.1853 BY RIGGS (R-CA) -- CARL D. PERKINS VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1997 (HOUSE REJECTED THE MINK AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO REQUIRE STATES THAT FUND PROGRAMS FOR HOMEMAKERS, SINGLE PARENTS, AND PREGNANT WOMEN AND PROGRAMS THAT PROMOTE GENDER EQUITY TO BE FUNDED AT THE SAME LEVEL AS IN FISCAL YEAR 1997.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

207 yea · 214 nayFailed13 not voting or present
Democrat194 yea · 2 nay
Republican12 yea · 212 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1853 ↗

Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998

Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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.

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”

    model(0.90): Mandating funding levels for programs supporting single parents and gender equity favors workers.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (207)

Nay (214)

Not voting or present (13)

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