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House Roll Call 197, 96th Congress · June 12, 1979

TO AGREE TO A SUBSTITUTE TO THE GARCIA AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2444. THE GARCIA AMENDMENT ESTABLISHES AN OFFICE OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND MINORITY LANGUAGES AFFAIRS WITHIN THE PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. THE DE LA GARZA SUBSTITUTE SPECIFIES THAT SUCH AN OFFICE BE ADMINISTERED BY A DIRECTOR OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION, APPOINTED BY THE SECRETARY, RATHER THAN HEADED BY ONE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARIES AS SPECIFIED IN THE ORIGINAL AMENDMENT. (MOTION PASSED)

396 yea · 22 nay15 not voting or present
Democrat253 yea · 4 nay
Republican141 yea · 18 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 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(0.90): Downgrading leadership rank of the bilingual education office reduces federal administrative authority.

    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 (397)

Nay (22)

Not voting or present (15)

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