Senate Roll Call 63, 96th Congress · April 26, 1979
TO AMEND S. 210 BY DELETING THE TRANSFER OF THE FUNCTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OVERSEAS SCHOOL SYSTEM TO THE PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 4
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.
- EducationA yea counts toward “Reduce federal role”
model(0.85): Deleting transfer of overseas schools limits expansion of federal education department.
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 (28)
- David Lyle Boren
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Jennings Randolph
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (58)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (14)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
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