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Senate Roll Call 105, 107th Congress · May 16, 2001

To express the sense of the Senate regarding, and authorize appropriations for, part F of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

60 yea · 39 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat49 yea · 0 nay
Republican9 yea · 39 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1 ↗

Better Education for Students and Teachers 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): Authorizing appropriations for ESEA programs expands the federal role in education.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Education

    Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.85): Authorizing appropriations increases federal spending and represents fiscal expansion.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    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 (60)

Nay (39)

Not voting or present (1)

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.