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Their Record

Senate Roll Call 343, 108th Congress · September 10, 2003

To provide additional funding for teacher quality programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 and for the Mathematics and Science Partnerships and the school leadership program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

43 yea · 51 nayMotion Rejected6 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 3 nay
Republican0 yea · 48 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2660 ↗

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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): Providing federal funding for education programs expands the federal role.

    Tagged by: keyword:higher education act

    Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Providing additional funding increases federal spending.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (43)

Nay (51)

Not voting or present (6)

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.