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House Roll Call 212, 96th Congress · June 13, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2444 BY STRIKING THE TRANSFER OF HEALTH MANPOWER PROGRAMS TO THE PROPOSED DEPARTMENT. (MOTION PASSED)

243 yea · 169 nay15 not voting or present
Democrat142 yea · 116 nay
Republican104 yea · 54 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(0.90): A yes vote strikes program transfers to the proposed Department, limiting its scope.

    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 (247)

Nay (172)

Not voting or present (15)

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.