Senate Roll Call 961, 95th Congress · August 16, 1978
TO TABLE THE PELL MOTION TO RECONSIDER THE VOTE BY WHICH THE SENATE PASSED S. 2539, THE BILL IMPROVING THE BASIC EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY GRANTS PROGRAM UNDER THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Middle Income Student Assistance Act
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 the motion to reconsider locks in the passage of the federal education bill.
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 (76)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (17)
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- John Goodwin Tower
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (7)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Maryon Pittman AllenDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
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