Senate Roll Call 785, 93rd Congress · May 15, 1974
TO AMEND S.1539 SO AS TO PROVIDE FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN ATTENDING PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments
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): Promotes freedom-of-choice plans, restricting federal desegregation busing mandates.
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 (39)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Alan Harvey Bible
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Norris H. Cotton
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- James Oliver Eastland
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- James William Fulbright
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (57)
- James George Abourezk
- George David Aiken
- Birch Evans Bayh
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- Pete V. Domenici
- Peter Hoyt Dominick
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- Robert Taft Jr.
- John Varick Tunney
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (5)
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Joseph Manuel MontoyaDid not vote
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