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Senate Roll Call 789, 93rd Congress · May 16, 1974

TO TABLE THE SCOTT OF (PA.)-MANSFIELD AMENDMENT TO HIS AMENDMENT TO TO S.1539. AS EXPLAINED BY SEN. SCOTT, THEIR AMENDMENT DOES NOT DIFFER FROM SEN. GRIFFIN EXCEPT IN AN EXPLICIT STATEMENT THAT THE SENATE DOES NOT INTEND TO VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION OF THE U.S.

45 yea · 48 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat20 yea · 34 nay
Republican24 yea · 15 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1539

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(0.80): Tabling a softening compromise preserves stronger anti-busing language.

    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 (46)

Nay (49)

Not voting or present (6)

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