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House Roll Call 196, 96th Congress · June 12, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2444 BY STRIKING LANGUAGE CREATING THE STRUCTURE WITHIN THE PROPOSED DEPARTMENT TO MANAGE FUNCTIONS RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SCHOOLS FOR OVERSEAS DEPENDENTS. (MOTION FAILED)

178 yea · 230 nay9 not voting or present
Democrat62 yea · 200 nay
Republican124 yea · 36 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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): Striking management structure for overseas schools limits the scope of the new department.

    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 (187)

Nay (238)

Not voting or present (9)

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.