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Senate Roll Call 84, 115th Congress · March 9, 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 accountability and State plans under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Question before the chamber: On the Joint Resolution

50 yea · 49 nayJoint Resolution Passed1 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 45 nay
Republican50 yea · 1 nay
Independent0 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 57 ↗

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to accountability and State plans under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

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 federal oversight of state plans.

    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 (50)

Nay (49)

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.