Senate Roll Call 242, 114th Congress · July 16, 2015

To provide for State-determined assessment and accountability systems, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

40 yea · 58 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present

Democrat0 yea · 42 nay

Republican40 yea · 13 nay

Independent0 yea · 3 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.

EducationA yea counts toward “Reduce federal role”
model(0.90): Devolves authority over assessment and accountability systems to state determination, reducing the federal 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 (40)

Nay (58)

Not voting or present (2)

Lindsey GrahamDid not vote
Bill NelsonDid not vote

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