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Senate Roll Call 185, 113th Congress · July 24, 2013

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish interest rates for new loans made on or after July 1, 2013, to direct the Secretary of Education to convene the Advisory Committee on Improving Postsecondary Education Data to conduct a study on improvements to postsecondary education transparency at the Federal level, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

81 yea · 18 nayBill Passed1 not voting or present
Democrat34 yea · 16 nay
Republican45 yea · 1 nay
Independent2 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1911 ↗

Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013

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): Establishing federal student loan interest rates expands the federal role in higher 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 (81)

Nay (18)

Not voting or present (1)

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