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House Roll Call 186, 96th Congress · June 11, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2444 BY CHANGING THE NAME OF THE PROPOSED DEPARTMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION. (MOTION FAILED)

52 yea · 310 nay69 not voting or present
Democrat4 yea · 216 nay
Republican48 yea · 95 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2444

Department of Education Organization 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.

  • EducationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Renaming the proposed department does not alter the extent of the federal role.

    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 (52)

Nay (313)

Not voting or present (69)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.