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Senate Roll Call 386, 105th Congress · April 21, 1998

To provide incentives for States to establish and administer periodic teacher testing and merit pay programs for elementary school and secondary school teachers. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE MACK AMENDMENT NO. 2288, TO PROVIDE INCENTIVES FOR STATES TO ESTABLISH AND ADMINISTER PERIODIC TEACHER TESTING AND MERIT PAY PROGRAMS FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

63 yea · 35 nayAmendment Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat10 yea · 34 nay
Republican52 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2646 ↗

Parent and Student Savings Account PLUS Act

Policy area: Taxation — 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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Teacher testing incentives do not directly alter federal tax revenues or tax rates.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

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

Yea (63)

Nay (35)

Not voting or present (2)

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