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Senate Roll Call 796, 93rd Congress · May 20, 1974

TO TABLE SEN. SCOTT OF VA.'S AMENDMENT TO S.1539, VESTING IN STATE, RATHER THAN FEDERAL, COURTS JURISDICTION IN CASES INVOLVING PUBLIC ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

61 yea · 25 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat37 yea · 11 nay
Republican25 yea · 13 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 “Expand federal role”

    model(0.90): Tabling measure shifting court jurisdiction to states retains federal role.

    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 (62)

Nay (25)

Not voting or present (14)

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