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Senate Roll Call 236, 114th Congress · July 14, 2015

To end discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity in public schools.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

52 yea · 45 nayAmendment Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 0 nay
Republican7 yea · 45 nay
Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1177 ↗

Every Student Succeeds 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.

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”

    model(0.95): Prohibits discrimination in public schools based on sexual orientation or gender identity, broadening civil rights protections.

    Tagged by: keyword:discrimination

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

  • LGBTQ PolicyA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”

    model(0.95): Broadens LGBTQ legal protections by banning anti-LGBTQ discrimination in public schools.

    Tagged by: keyword:sexual orientation,gender identity

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.90): Establishes a federal non-discrimination mandate for public schools, expanding the federal oversight role.

    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 (45)

Not voting or present (3)

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