Senate Roll Call 996, 95th Congress · August 24, 1978
TO AMEND S. 1753 BY DELETING TITLE II FROM THE BILL ON THE GROUNDS THAT THIS NEW TITLE INCREASES THE POSSIBILITY OF FEDERAL CONTROL OVER LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS. TITLE II PROVIDES FUNDS FOR BASIC SKILLS AND PROFICIENCY PROGRAMS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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(0.95): Deleting a federal basic skills program specifically prevents federal control over local schools.
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 (30)
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Jesse Helms
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (62)
- James George Abourezk
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
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