Senate Roll Call 997, 95th Congress · August 24, 1978
TO AMEND S. 1753 BY DELETING THE REQUIREMENT IN PRESENT LAW FOR TIERED FUNDING, AND ALLOWING CONGRESS TO DETERMINE ANNUALLY THE FUNDING LEVEL FOR THE VARIOUS TIERS IN THE PROGRAM.
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.
- EducationDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.70) Modifying funding tiering mechanics alters legislative discretion without clearly scaling federal authority.
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 (57)
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- George Stanley McGovern
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (35)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Anthony Durkin
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- John Goodwin Tower
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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