House Roll Call 563, 105th Congress · November 4, 1997

Helping Empower Low-Income Parents (HELP) Scholarships Amendments — (HOUSE FAILED TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 2746, TO AMEND TITLE VI OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 TO GIVE PARENTS WITH LOW INCOMES THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHOOSE THE APPROPRIATE SCHOOL FOR THEIR CHILDREN.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

191 yea · 228 nayFailed14 not voting or present

Democrat4 yea · 190 nay

Republican187 yea · 37 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 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.

EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”
model(0.85): Establishes a federal scholarship program under ESEA, expanding the federal government's 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 (191)

Nay (228)

Not voting or present (14)

Gary L. AckermanDid not vote
Tom CoburnDid not vote
Barbara L. CubinDid not vote
Thomas Michael FogliettaDid not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezDid not vote
Tim HoldenDid not vote
Michael R. McNultyDid not vote
Robert MenendezDid not vote
Donald M. PayneDid not vote
John Edward PorterDid not vote
Bob RileyDid not vote
Steven Harvey SchiffDid not vote
Louise McIntosh SlaughterDid not vote
Edolphus TownsDid not vote

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