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Senate Roll Call 264, 95th Congress · June 29, 1977

TO AMEND H.R. 7555 BY PROHIBITING THE USE OF FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONDUCTING CIVIL RIGHTS SURVEYS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN 1977-1978, EXCEPT WHEN DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE SECRETARY OF HEW.

78 yea · 11 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 10 nay
Republican34 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 7555

Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act

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.

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”

    model(0.90): Prohibiting funds for school civil rights surveys narrows federal civil rights monitoring.

    Tagged by: keyword:civil rights

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.85): Prohibiting the use of funds for civil rights surveys reduces federal spending on those surveys.

    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 (79)

Nay (11)

Not voting or present (10)

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