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House Roll Call 746, 105th Congress · April 30, 1998

District of Columbia Student Opportunity Scholarship Act — S.1502 BY COATS (R-IN) -- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA STUDENT OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP ACT OF 1998 (HOUSE REJECTED THE NORTON MOTION TO COMMIT THE BILL TO THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT. .)

Question before the chamber: On motion to commit

198 yea · 224 nayFailed11 not voting or present
Democrat194 yea · 4 nay
Republican3 yea · 220 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1502 ↗

District of Columbia Student Opportunity Scholarship Act 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 “Reduce federal role”

    model(0.85): Motion to commit kills the bill creating a federal scholarship program in DC.

    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 (198)

Nay (224)

Not voting or present (11)

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