House Roll Call 204, 96th Congress · June 12, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2444 BY STRIKING LANGUAGE PROVIDING FOR FIVE OFFICERS IN THE DEPARTMENT TO CARRY OUT FUNCTIONS DELEGATED BY THE SECRETARY. (MOTION FAILED)

170 yea · 220 nay33 not voting or present

Democrat41 yea · 200 nay

Republican134 yea · 23 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 five officer positions reduces federal department bureaucracy and reach.
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 (176)

Nay (225)

Not voting or present (33)

Joseph Patrick AddabboDid not vote
William Vollie Alexander Jr.Did not vote
John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Mario BiaggiDid not vote
Richard Walker BollingDid not vote
John Lowell BurtonDid not vote
Phillip BurtonDid not vote
Mendel Jackson DavisDid not vote
Charles Coles Diggs Jr.Did not vote
John D. DingellDid not vote
Robert Christian EckhardtDid not vote
William Jackson EdwardsDid not vote
Billy Lee EvansDid not vote
Thomas Beverley Evans Jr.Did not vote
James Michael HanleyDid not vote
Elizabeth HoltzmanDid not vote
Gillis William LongDid not vote
Marvin Dawson MathisDid not vote
Abner Joseph MikvaDid not vote
Gillespie V. MontgomeryDid not vote
David Ross ObeyDid not vote
James Henry QuillenDid not vote
Martin Anthony RussoDid not vote
Martin Olav SaboDid not vote
David Conner TreenDid not vote
Morris King UdallDid not vote
Henry A. WaxmanDid not vote
James Howard WeaverDid not vote
Robert Carlton WilsonDid not vote
Timothy E. WirthDid not vote
Joseph Peyton Wyatt Jr.Did not vote
Clement John ZablockiDid not vote
Leo C. ZeferettiDid not vote

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