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House Roll Call 641, 105th Congress · February 5, 1998

Prohibition on Federal Education Funds on National Testing — H.R.2846 BY GOODLING (R-PA) -- SPENDING OF FEDERAL EDUCATION FUNDS ON NATIONAL TESTING WITHOUT LEGISLATION, PROHIBITION (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 2846, TO PROHIBIT SPENDING FEDERAL EDUCATION FUNDS ON NATIONAL TESTING WITHOUT EXPLICIT AND SPECIFIC LEGISLATION.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

242 yea · 174 nayPassed14 not voting or present
Democrat23 yea · 171 nay
Republican219 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2846 ↗

To prohibit spending Federal education funds on national testing without explicit and specific legislation.

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 “Reduce federal role”

    model(0.90): Prohibiting federal national testing reduces 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 (242)

Nay (174)

Not voting or present (14)

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