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Senate Roll Call 83, 115th Congress · March 8, 2017

A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to teacher preparation issues.

Question before the chamber: On the Joint Resolution

59 yea · 40 nayJoint Resolution Passed1 not voting or present
Democrat6 yea · 39 nay
Republican51 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 58 ↗

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to teacher preparation issues.

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): Disapproving a federal Department of Education rule reduces the federal role in 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 (59)

Nay (40)

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.