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Senate Roll Call 234, 105th Congress · September 11, 1997

To prohibit the use of funds for national testing in reading and mathematics, with certain exceptions. — (SENATE AGREED TO GREGG MODIFIED AMENDMENT NO. 1070, TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF FUNDS FOR NATIONAL TESTING IN READING AND MATHEMATICS, WITH CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

87 yea · 13 nayAmendment Agreed to
Democrat45 yea · 0 nay
Republican40 yea · 13 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1061

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Prohibiting funding for national testing is a policy rider where fiscal impact is incidental.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (87)

Nay (13)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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