House Roll Call 239, 96th Congress · June 19, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2444 BY STRIKING LANGUAGE GIVING THE SECRETARY DISCRETIONARY AUTHORITY TO WAIVE FEDERALLY MANDATED ORGANIZATIONAL REQUIREMENTS, AND BY INSERTING LANGUAGE PROVIDING FOR AN 8-MONTH TRANSITION PERIOD DURING WHICH THE SECRETARY MAY NOT WITHHOLD FUNDS UNDER ANY PROGRAM IF A STATE FAILS TO COMPLY WITH ANY APPLICABLE LAW REQUIRING THE ADMINISTRATION THROUGH A SINGLE ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT. (MOTION PASSED)

362 yea · 36 nay33 not voting or present

Democrat242 yea · 5 nay

Republican121 yea · 31 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 0 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(0.85): Restricts federal secretary authority and limits federal enforcement powers over state education agencies.
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 (365)

Nay (36)

Not voting or present (33)

William Vollie Alexander Jr.Did not vote
John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Eugene Vincent AtkinsonDid not vote
Edward Patrick BolandDid not vote
Richard Walker BollingDid not vote
James Thomas BroyhillDid not vote
Clair Walter BurgenerDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
Mendel Jackson DavisDid not vote
Charles Coles Diggs Jr.Did not vote
Robert William EdgarDid not vote
Daniel John FloodDid not vote
Richard Andrew GephardtDid not vote
Robert Nicholas GiaimoDid not vote
Tennyson GuyerDid not vote
William Howard HarshaDid not vote
Harold Capistran HollenbeckDid not vote
Andrew Poysell IrelandDid not vote
Norman Frederick LentDid not vote
Robert Homer MollohanDid not vote
Stephen Lybrook NealDid not vote
Richard Lawrence OttingerDid not vote
Donald James PeaseDid not vote
Nick J. Rahall IIDid not vote
Herbert Ray RobertsDid not vote
John Harbin RousselotDid not vote
Harold Lowell RunnelsDid not vote
Richard Taylor SchulzeDid not vote
David Alan StockmanDid not vote
Charles Albert VanikDid not vote
Harold Lee VolkmerDid not vote
Douglas WalgrenDid not vote
James Claude Wright Jr.Did not vote

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