Senate Roll Call 66, 96th Congress · April 30, 1979
TO AMEND S. 210 BY REQUIRING PARENTAL NOTIFICATION AND CONSENT BEFORE STUDENTS COULD PARTICIPATE IN SEX EDUCATION CLASSES IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS. 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.
- EducationDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.75) Mandating parental consent combines federal regulation with local parental rights oversight.
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 (16)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (73)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden 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
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (11)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
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