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House Roll Call 189, 96th Congress · June 11, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2444 BY DECLARING THAT IT WAS THE INTENT OF CONGRESS TO LIMIT FUTURE BUDGET AUTHORITY TO THE LEVEL SET IN THIS BILL PLUS YEARLY COST OF LIVING INCREASES. (MOTION FAILED)

184 yea · 187 nay42 not voting or present
Democrat56 yea · 182 nay
Republican136 yea · 15 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 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(0.92): Capping future budget authority limits the expansion of federal involvement.

    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 (194)

Nay (198)

Not voting or present (42)

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