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House Roll Call 751, 105th Congress · May 5, 1998

(HOUSE REJECTED THE OWENS AMENDMENT, DEBATED ON APRIL 29, THAT SOUGHT TO ESTABLISH A POSTSECONDARY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RECRUITMENT PROGRAM. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

172 yea · 234 nayFailed26 not voting or present
Democrat166 yea · 19 nay
Republican5 yea · 215 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6

Higher Education Amendments of 1998

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(0.90): Establishes a new federal postsecondary recruitment program.

    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 (172)

Nay (234)

Not voting or present (26)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.