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House Roll Call 1113, 96th Congress · August 27, 1980

TO AMEND H.R. 7998, FISCAL 1981 APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, BY PROHIBITING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FROM USING APPROPRIATED FUNDS, OTHER THAN BILINGUAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS FUNDS, TO ENFORCE REGULATIONS WHICH WOULD REQUIRE A STATE OR LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY, AS A CONDITION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR RECEIPT OF FUNDS, TO ADDRESS THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF STUDENTS OF LIMITED ENGLISH SPEAKING ABILITY BY INSTRUCTION IN A LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH. (MOTION PASSED)

213 yea · 194 nay13 not voting or present
Democrat78 yea · 176 nay
Republican139 yea · 23 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 7998 ↗

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1981

Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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.

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A rider blocking enforcement of bilingual instruction rules is a policy fight; spending impact is incidental.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    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 (219)

Nay (200)

Not voting or present (13)

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