Senate Roll Call 65, 96th Congress · April 30, 1979
TO AGREE TO A SUBSTITUTE FOR S. 210. THE SCHWEICKER AMENDMENT RESTRUCTURES THE EDUCATION DIVISION OF HEW AND PROVIDES FOR A NEW UNDERSECRETARY OF EDUCATION TO REPORT DIRECTLY TO THE SECRETARY OF HEW. (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): Substituting HEW reorganization for a standalone department limits federal education authority.
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 (26)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Robert Joseph Dole
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- William Proxmire
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (60)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- 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.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (14)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Paul S. SarbanesDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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