House Roll Call 318, 106th Congress · July 20, 1999

Teacher Empowerment Act — H R 1995 QUESTION: ON PASSAGE TEACHER EMPOWERMENT ACT

Question before the chamber: On Passage

239 yea · 185 nayPassed10 not voting or present

Democrat22 yea · 179 nay

Republican217 yea · 5 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1995 ↗

Teacher Empowerment Act

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(0.85): Passage authorizes federal education grant programs, expanding 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 (239)

Nay (185)

Not voting or present (10)

Philip EnglishDid not vote
Maurice D. HincheyDid not vote
Tim HoldenDid not vote
Patrick Joseph KennedyDid not vote
Rick A. LazioDid not vote
John LewisDid not vote
Jim McDermottDid not vote
John E. PetersonDid not vote
Fortney Pete StarkDid not vote
Henry A. WaxmanDid not vote

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