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Senate Roll Call 191, 107th Congress · June 14, 2001

To provide that no public elementary school, public secondary school, local educational agency, or State educational agency, may deny equal access or a fair opportunity to meet after school in a designated open forum to any youth group listed in title 36 of the U.S. Code as a patriotic society, including the Boy Scouts of America, based on that group's favorable or unfavorable position concerning sexual orientation.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

52 yea · 47 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat47 yea · 2 nay
Republican3 yea · 45 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.

  • LGBTQ PolicyA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”

    model(0.85): Protects groups that exclude based on sexual orientation from local anti-discrimination rules.

    Tagged by: keyword:sexual orientation

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.85): Establishes a federal requirement restricting local school decisions.

    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 (52)

Nay (47)

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.