Senate Roll Call 36, 96th Congress · April 5, 1979
TO TABLE THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO S.210, A BILL TO ESTABLISH A FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. THE HELMS AMENDMENT WOULD RESTORE THE RIGHT OF VOLUNTARY PRAYER IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An act to establish a Department of Education, and for other purposes.
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.
- EducationDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) School prayer rider does not directly map to the federal role in education axis.
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 (43)
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (44)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (13)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
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