House Roll Call 198, 96th Congress · June 12, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2444 BY ESTABLISHING AN OFFICE OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND MINORITY LANGUAGE AFFAIRS WITHIN THE PROPOSED DEPARTMENT. (MOTION PASSED)

290 yea · 124 nay18 not voting or present

Democrat216 yea · 39 nay

Republican73 yea · 85 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 “Expand federal role”
model(0.95): Establishing a new federal office expands the federal role in education.
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 (291)

Nay (125)

Not voting or present (18)

Joseph Patrick AddabboDid not vote
John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr.Did not vote
Richard Walker BollingDid not vote
David Reece BowenDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
John D. DingellDid not vote
Daniel John FloodDid not vote
Jonas Frost IIIDid not vote
Barry Morris Goldwater Jr.Did not vote
William John HughesDid not vote
Harold Terry JohnsonDid not vote
James Paul JohnsonDid not vote
James Marvin LeathDid not vote
Harold Lowell RunnelsDid not vote
David Conner TreenDid not vote
Robert Carlton WilsonDid not vote
Leo C. ZeferettiDid not vote

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