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House Roll Call 235, 95th Congress · May 18, 1977

TO AMEND H.R. 1139 BY PROVIDING THE OPTION TO RECEIVE CASH INSTEAD OF THE COMMODITIES NORMALLY SUPPLIED UNDER THE ACT. THE GOODLING AMENDMENT WOULD PERMIT EACH LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT THE CHOICE OF THE TWO OPTIONS.

138 yea · 272 nay21 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 227 nay
Republican93 yea · 45 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1139 ↗

National School Lunch Act and Child Nutrition Amendments of 1977

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): Provides local districts flexibility instead of rigid federal commodity distribution.

    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 (138)

Nay (273)

Not voting or present (21)

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