House Roll Call 203, 96th Congress · June 12, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2444 BY STRIKING LANGUAGE WHEREBY PRINCIPAL OFFICERS IN THE PROPOSED DEPARTMENT MAY BE DELEGATED TO PROVIDE USEFUL INFORMATION ABOUT EDUCATION AND RELATED OPPORTUNITIES TO STUDENTS, PARENTS, AND COMMUNITIES. (MOTION FAILED)

149 yea · 243 nay31 not voting or present

Democrat30 yea · 215 nay

Republican123 yea · 32 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 authority for department officers to disseminate information reduces federal activities.
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 (154)

Nay (249)

Not voting or present (31)

Joseph Patrick AddabboDid not vote
John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Mario BiaggiDid not vote
Richard Walker BollingDid not vote
John Lowell BurtonDid not vote
Mendel Jackson DavisDid not vote
Butler Carson Derrick Jr.Did not vote
Charles Coles Diggs Jr.Did not vote
John D. DingellDid not vote
Billy Lee EvansDid not vote
Thomas Beverley Evans Jr.Did not vote
Daniel John FloodDid not vote
Tony P. HallDid not vote
James Michael HanleyDid not vote
Elizabeth HoltzmanDid not vote
James Paul JohnsonDid not vote
Walter Beaman Jones Sr.Did not vote
Gillis William LongDid not vote
Manuel Luján Jr.Did not vote
Marvin Dawson MathisDid not vote
Stewart Brett McKinneyDid not vote
Barbara A. MikulskiDid not vote
Claude Denson PepperDid not vote
Martin Anthony RussoDid not vote
David Conner TreenDid not vote
Morris King UdallDid not vote
Henry A. WaxmanDid not vote
Lyle WilliamsDid not vote
Robert Carlton WilsonDid not vote
Timothy E. WirthDid not vote
Leo C. ZeferettiDid not vote

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