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House Roll Call 187, 96th Congress · June 11, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2444 BY CREATING AN INDEPENDENT OFFICE OF EDUCATION RATHER THAN A DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. (MOTION FAILED)

114 yea · 257 nay44 not voting or present
Democrat27 yea · 207 nay
Republican96 yea · 58 nay
Other1 yea · 1 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.

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Reduce federal role”

    model(0.95): Creating an office rather than a cabinet-level department reduces 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 (124)

Nay (266)

Not voting or present (44)

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.