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House Roll Call 218, 96th Congress · June 13, 1979

TO AMEND 2444 BY TRANSFERRING HEW FUNCTIONS UNDER THE HEADSTART-FOLLOW THROUGH ACT INTO THE PROPOSED DEPARTMENT. (MOTION FAILED)

179 yea · 230 nay23 not voting or present
Democrat57 yea · 194 nay
Republican121 yea · 36 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(0.90): A yes vote transfers Headstart programs into the Department, expanding 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 (180)

Nay (231)

Not voting or present (23)

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.