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Senate Roll Call 1095, 93rd Congress · December 11, 1974

TO TABLE SCOTT (PA) MANSFIELD AMENDMENT TO HOUSE AMENDMENT TO SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 16900, A BILL MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL 1975. THE AMENDMENT IN QUESTION IS THE SO-CALLED HOLT AMENDMENT, WHICH, AT THIS POINT IN THE BILL'S HISTORY, NOW PROVIDES THAT NONE OF THESE FUNDS SHALL BE USED TO COMPEL ANY SCHOOL SYSTEM, AS A CONDITION FOR RECEIVING GRANTS TO CLASSIFY TEACHERS OR STUDENTS ON THE BASIS OF RACE, RELIGION, SEX, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN OR TO ASSIGN STUDENTS OR TEACHERS TO SCHOOLS OR CLASSES ON THIS BASIS. THE SCOTT-MANSFIELD AMENDMENT ADDS THE WORDS: EXCEPT AS MAY BE REQUIRED TO ENFORCE THE NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION OF FEDERAL LAWS.

33 yea · 60 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 41 nay
Republican19 yea · 21 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 16900

Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1975

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) This is a vote on a civil rights policy rider to an appropriations bill.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (34)

Nay (62)

Not voting or present (4)

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