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Senate Roll Call 491, 105th Congress · July 9, 1998

To ensure that secondary school teachers are sufficiently prepared during their pre-service training to have sufficient academic knowledge to be able to help their students reach high academic standards. — (SENATE REJECTED THE BINGAMAN AMENDMENT NO. 3116, TO ENSURE THAT SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS ARE SUFFICIENTLY PREPARED DURING THEIR PRE-SERVICE TRAINING TO HAVE SUFFICIENT ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE TO BE ABLE TO HELP THEIR STUDENTS REACH HIGH ACADEMIC STANDARDS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

23 yea · 74 nayAmendment Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat20 yea · 24 nay
Republican3 yea · 48 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1882 ↗

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(0.95): Establishing federal standards and oversight for teacher training expands 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 (23)

Nay (74)

Not voting or present (3)

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