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House Roll Call 562, 105th Congress · November 4, 1997

Helping Empower Low-Income Parents (HELP) Scholarships Amendments — H.R.2746 BY RIGGS (R-CA) -- ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965, AMENDMENT (HOUSE REJECTED THE ETHERIDGE MOTION TO RECOMMIT THE BILL TO THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO HOLD A FULL, OPEN, AND FAIR HEARING AND MARKUP ON THE BILL BEFORE REPORTING IT TO THE FULL HOUSE FOR CONSIDERATION.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

203 yea · 215 nayFailed15 not voting or present
Democrat190 yea · 4 nay
Republican12 yea · 211 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2746 ↗

Helping Empower Low-income Parents (HELP) Scholarships Amendments of 1997

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.

  • EducationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Instruction to hold committee hearings is procedural and does not directly alter the federal role in education.

    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 (203)

Nay (215)

Not voting or present (15)

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