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Senate Roll Call 493, 105th Congress · July 9, 1998

A bill to extend the authorization of programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes. — (SENATE PASSED H.R. 6, TO EXTEND THE AUTORIZATION OF PROGRAMS UNDER THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

96 yea · 1 nayBill Passed3 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 0 nay
Republican50 yea · 1 nay
Independent2 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(0.95): Reauthorizing federal higher education programs expands the federal government's role.

    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 (96)

Nay (1)

Not voting or present (3)

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.